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Climate change or global warming?
2014-06-12 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boulder Weekly: More Americans say the term global warming is bad news than take that view when the term climate change is used instead, according to a recent study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communications. Americans interpret and respond to these words differently, said Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale study, which found 13 percent more Americans saw global warming as a bad thing and that 9 percent more...
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Study discovers link between climate change and ocean currents over six million years
2014-06-12 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over the past six million years after analysing an area of the Atlantic near the Strait of Gibraltar, according to research published today in the journal Science. An expedition of scientists, jointly led by Dr Javier Hernandez-Molina, from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, examined core samples from the seabed off the coast of Spain and Portugal which provided proof of shifts...
Cambodia most vulnerable climate change: study
2014-06-12 04:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phnom Penh Post: US credit ratings agency Standard & Poors has ranked Cambodias economy and creditworthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Of 116 nations measured by S&P as part of a vulnerability index published last month with a number 1 ranking being the least vulnerable Cambodia scored the lowest, coming in at 116th. The index took into account the share of Cambodias population living in areas below five metres of altitude, the percentage that agriculture contributes to...
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Tony Abbott prepares for Barack Obama meeting saying climate change 'not most important issue'
2014-06-12 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: This time tomorrow, Tony Abbott will be preparing for his Oval Office meeting with President Obama and the gulf between the two leaders on climate change has never been wider. On his way to Washington, Tony Abbott announced an alliance with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push back against using carbon trading schemes to tackle climate change, while President Obama at the same time was calling climate change perhaps the most significant long-term challenge facing...
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Climate Change Is Cooking Up a New Permafrost in Alaska
2014-06-11 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Study finds a new permafrost is now in the making in Alaska Except for people who live in smack in the middle of nowhere and folks who choose to remain oblivious to what is happening to the world around them, pretty much everybody knows that climate change is reshaping our planet's ecosystems. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists with McGill University and the United States Geological Survey explain that this man-made phenomenon is now cooking up a new permafrost in...
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