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New Map Tracks Climate Change and Species Migration
2014-02-13 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Santa Barbara Independent: UCSB`s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) worked with international scientists to create a map to track shifting climates and species migration. A collection of international scientists collaborated and examined 50 years of sea surface and land temperature data to create a map that shows where existing environments may disappear due to climate change. They discovered that climate migration is more complex than species shifting toward the poles, which an earlier NCEAS...
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Climate change policy at risk because of denial and fear, Ed Davey warns
2014-02-13 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain's climate change policy is under threat from a "diabolical cocktail" of nimbyism, denial of science and fear of Europe from politicians on the right, the energy secretary will say on Thursday. Amid growing warnings about a potential link between global warming and extreme UK weather, Ed Davey will raise concerns that the politicial consensus about the need to tackle climate change is in danger of breaking down as some in the Conservative and Ukip parties try to discredit the science. ...
Most Americans Want Action on Climate Change, Despite Costs, Report Finds
2014-02-12 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A large majority of Americans 83 percent say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if those efforts have economic costs, according to a new report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. As many as 56 percent of Americans would be willing to pay an extra $100 each year if their power company would generate 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Corporations and industry should be doing more to stave off climate change, according to 65 percent...
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Is Climate Change to Blame for UK's Floods?
2014-02-12 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across portions of the south of England, waves lap against the shores of lakes and ponds that used to be fields, as one of the wettest winters in U.K. history has dumped successive bouts of rain over the country, causing rivers to top their banks and inundate farms and towns. And while a series of shifts in weather patterns across the globe seems to be causing the endless train of storms soaking the island, climate change may play a role in the current heavy downpours as well, said Dame Julia...
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Climate change presented national security issue
2014-02-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer-Reporter: A retired rear admiral, David Titley, had a simple explanation for why the military is sharing the helm of climate-change policy. Why did the Department of Defense get into this? he asked Monday night inside Washington & Jefferson Colleges Burnett Center. The fact is its leaders have seen these changes firsthand and realize that if you dont prepare for them, there will be consequences. Titley, a Navy man, was one of three panelists who spearheaded a program titled Climate Change and...
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