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Scientist predicts climate change weed spread
2014-02-09 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scoop: New research from the University of Auckland shows invasive tropical and sub-tropical plants that displace native species could thrive and spread if global temperatures rise as climate scientists predict. Plant ecology PhD student Christine Sheppard from the Universitys Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, used bioclimatic models to investigate future potential distributions of potential new weeds already invasive in other countries: Bangalow Palm, Queensland...
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Toxic Denial of Climate Change Reality as Planet Hangs in Balance
2014-02-09 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jewish Daily Forward: Environmentalists sometimes accuse conservatives of turning a blind eye to the extreme weather battering the country lately, because of disagreements over global warming. Thats unfair. Despite political squabbling, some bold initiatives are emerging. On February 1, seeking to end the crippling drought thats produced federal disaster areas in 11 Western states, faith leaders from across the religious spectrum, including imams, rabbis and Buddhist priests, met in a Mormon church outside Reno,...
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It's time to tackle climate change with carbon tax
2014-02-09 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HeraldNet: It is time to tax carbon. Washington state must apply this simple, fair, and effective solution to the problem of carbon pollution. Some threats call for careful examination, deliberation, and a measured response. Global warming once was one of these in 1975. Intervening years of accelerating carbon emissions have nourished the twin monster threats to our society that they cause: what we now call climate change and ocean acidification. Decades of inaction in the face of these building...
Met Office Scientist Says Climate Change To Blame For UK Storms
2014-02-09 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The severe storms that have lashed southern England are almost certainly linked to climate change, the Met Office's top scientist has said. Dame Julia Slingo said: "In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it." Slingo was speaking before the publication of the Met Office's latest analysis on recent climatic events, by the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. The report...
United Kingdom: Met Office blames climate change for flurry of storms that have battered Britain
2014-02-09 02:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Top scientist Dame Julia Slingo said: "If we look at the broader base of evidence then we see things that support the premise that climate change has been making a contribution." Climate change "almost certainly" lies behind the flurry of storms that have ravaged Britain this winter, it has been claimed. The Met Office's chief scientist, Dame Julia Slingo, said "all the evidence" pointed to the phenomenon playing a role. She also delivered a grim warning that the country should prepare for...
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