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Climate change brings more crime
2014-02-20 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures -- on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis -- are likely to produce more crime. The study by Matthew Ranson of Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., suggests global warming will trigger more crimes including murders and rapes over the next century, with social costs estimated to run as high as $115 billion. Between 2010 and 2099, climate change can be expected to...
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Calif. Billionaire Plans $100 Million Climate Change Campaign
2014-02-19 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Tom Steyer, a billionaire retired hedge-fund investor, is aiming to spend $100 million to make climate change a priority issue in this year's midterm elections. As the New York Times reported Tuesday, the Democrat is working to raise $50 million from donors to add to $50 million of his own money to bankroll his San Francisco-based political organization, NextGen Climate Action. According to the Times, the money will be used for attack ads during the election, including the Florida governor's...
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Climate Change Linked Increased Suicide in Australia
2014-02-19 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Suicide rates in Australia increase with prolonged temperature increases, according to Xin Qi, a researcher from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, who suggests that climate change will result in increased suicide rates. As part of his Ph.D. research, Qi and his collaborators analyzed the socioenvironmental drivers of suicide rates in Australia over the last two decades, finding that variations in temperature, paired with spikes in unemployment, had a correlation to increased instances...
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EU climate change ambitions cut by cost
2014-02-19 01:00:00| Power Technology
New proposals put forward by the European Commission could breathe new life into the nuclear and shale gas industries and leave renewables out in the cold. But how have they been received by member states?
5 reasons why climate change is back in the news
2014-02-19 00:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: In the space of 48 hours, Secretary of State John Kerry likened climate change to a weapon of mass destruction, Newt Gingrich called Kerry delusional, Sunday talk shows argued about it and President Barack Obama announced another executive action to combat it. After what seemed like a lull in political focus on the issue, why is everyone talking about it this week? A convergence of events and factors -- blizzards in the East and drought out West, an administration acting on oft-stated intentions,...
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