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Climate change: Can we stop with the deep-freeze science-denying?
2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: Yes, we know it`s been brutally cold lately, but the catcalling from climate-change deniers has grown boring and predictable. Whenever the mercury dips below freezing, conservative commentators breathlessly trumpet the temperature dip as hard evidence of a global warming hoax. Can we do away with this bit of science-denying nonsense? Step 1 sadly requires a review of elementary school science: Weather and climate aren`t the same thing. Deniers happily confuse short-term weather with long-term...
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Al Gore on Climate Change: 'Extreme Weather Events Are a Gamechanger'
2014-01-24 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Climate change made an appearance at the 44th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, thanks to former Vice-President Al Gore and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. The two world figures commented on how extreme weather events are intensifying global awareness of the climate change phenomenon. The weather events they mentioned include the likes of the recent typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, both of which caused huge economic and human damage. I think that these extreme weather...
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Cost of climate change high on Davos agenda
2014-01-24 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Issues related to climate change are taking center stage at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. In WEF's Global Risk Report, extreme weather events are viewed as the second biggest threat to societies. From within the Davos Congress Center, you can see skiers racing down the slopes outside of the World Economic Forum. Looking at the snow outside, some participants might wonder why there's so much talk about global warming. Not so Christiana Figueres. Standing in the snow, the UN climate...
Why climate change is inevitable
2014-01-24 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week: Have you cut your energy consumption -- and greenhouse gas emissions -- by 40 percent in recent years? Didn't think so. Neither have I, or many of the other seven billion people on the planet. In a draft of their final report that was leaked last week to The New York Times, scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have concluded that the world is not heeding their repeated warnings, and that mankind's heavy use of fossil fuels -- and emissions of carbon dioxide -- are increasing,...
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Canada: How climate change is already costing us
2014-01-24 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Local conservation authorities say the impact of climate change is making it increasingly hard to balance their books, which are funded in part by tax dollars. Global warming is causing more extreme weather such as downpours, high winds and other events that result in floods and broken trees, said Chris Firth-Eagland, head of the Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA). And its only going to get worse, he said. Its causing more flooding. Odd storms with more impact. Spikes, he said. Those...
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