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Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
2016-07-21 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Its no news that Greenland is in serious trouble -- but now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet lost a whopping 1 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. Its the latest story in a long series of increasingly...
North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for - study
2016-07-20 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said on Wednesday. The new research challenges previous studies that said trees could grow larger due to higher temperatures brought on by global warming, said the authors of the study published in the journal Ecology Letters. Typically, up to a tharizird of carbon-dioxide emissions from human activity, such as automobile driving or steel production,...
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As Republicans Deny Climate Change, the U.N. Says it Could Cost the World $2 Trillion
2016-07-19 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mic: Assuming all goes as planned, the GOP -- during the ongoing 2016 Republican Convention -- will formally select presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a man who has described climate change as a concept "created by and for the Chinese" and "bullshit." Meanwhile, the United Nations released research Tuesday which indicates said "bullshit" could interfere with productivity, costing the world $2 trillion over the next 14 years. As the world gets hotter, it will necessitate that...
Report warns of severe future effects of climate change on the U.K.
2016-07-15 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: The contributors, who include Environment and Climate Change Lecturer Dr Ruth Wood and Professor of Ecology Richard Bardgett, say that action to tackle urgent threats including widespread flooding and new diseases must be taken promptly. The report also warns that wars and migration around the world caused by climate change could have significant consequences for the UK through disrupted trade and more overseas military intervention. The worst-case scenarios - which will become reality if action...
Alberta co-chair of climate change advisory group regrets likening oilsands to 'Mordor'
2016-07-14 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Alberta's Opposition Wildrose Party is criticizing the NDP government for appointing someone to an advisory group who once compared the oilsands to "Mordor." Mordor is a dark, scorched land of suffering in the fictional world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. On Wednesday, the province announced the members of an 18-member advisory group to implement Alberta's climate-change plan. The group's mandate is to provide advice on ways to ensure that initiatives created as part of the government's...
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