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Robbins: Climate change & state's drought
2014-03-09 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Democrat: The east shore of Lake Berryessa is seen during a flight over the proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain Conservation Area. (Bill Husa/MediaNews Group file photograph)My friends in Iowa are digging cars and mailboxes out from under yet another snowstorm, so I don't get much sympathy when I report yet another dry day of sunshine and high 60s. But President Obama, recognizing the relationship of California's agricultural health to the nation's food prices, brought some welcome attention as well as financial...
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Climate change is a conservative cause really
2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Miami, of all places, might be most aware of rising sea levels and the risk of increasing storm intensity. But whats a conservative to do? Agree to walk and eat bugs? Accept a future of shivering or sweating in the dark depending on the season? Join the apocalyptic whine from the environmental left about our sure and imminent demise? Lets not do any of those things. Lets show that this is about reasonable risk avoidance and sound economics. Lets be the optimists who say, Youve got a problem?...
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Climate change causes malaria to 'creep up' to higher altitudes putting millions more at risk
2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: In 2012, an estimated 660,000 people worldwide died from malaria, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite increased prevention and control measures that have decreased malaria mortality rates by more than 23 percent since 2000, experts say that climate change will put millions more people at risk of contracting the deadly mosquito-borne disease. Scientists have speculated for some time that climate change will push mosquitoes, which thrive in warm environments, into areas that were previously...
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Democrats plan all-night 'talkathon' climate change
2014-03-09 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Just don't call it a filibuster. A majority of Senate Democrats on Monday will launch an overnight "talkathon" until approximately 9:00 a.m. Tuesday to draw attention to climate change. The overnight effort, organized by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, is part of the recently launched Senate Climate Action Task Force headed by Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. In a statement, Boxer said Democrats want to "wake up Congress" to the dangers of climate change....
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United Kingdom: Farmers' fury after climate change expert claims
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Gazette: Farmers have reacted angrily after the Government's climate change experts questioned whether it was fair to spend 100 million of taxpayers' money to save the Somerset Levels. Climate expert Lord Krebs has sent a letter to Environment Minister Owen Paterson saying the Levels should not be made a special case and any plan should be good value for money. Earlier this week the Minister took receipt of an action plan outlining 100 million worth of measures that need to be taken to safeguard the...
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