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Climate change series: The 'terrified' vs. the 'sanguine'
2014-01-05 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vail Daily: Barbara Coddington is terrified of climate change. The Glenwood Springs woman applauds the ski resorts in the region for anything and everything theyre doing to help the environment, but shes worried that global environmental damage is so bad that it will be impossible to reverse the consequences. Coddington believes 100 percent in the science that proves climate change is human-caused. She points to the fact that more than 97 percent of the scientists in the field agree that its happening...
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Climate change brings a new wrinkle to life on Palau's islands: Fear of the sea
2014-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: In Palau, youre never far from the ocean. It laps at the countrys 700 or so small islands, and it comes up quickly in conversation. The people here are bonded with the sea. It sustains them. They often learn to swim before they learn to walk. But as important as its always been, lately the sea has been getting a little too close for some Palauans, even the countrys president, Tommy Remengesau, Jr. Lately, during some full moon high tides, the president says its been flooding his back yard....
Should Australian newspapers publish climate change denialist opinion pieces?
2014-01-04 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Should Fairfax -- or other media publishers -- give a platform for climate change denialist opinion pieces? The most recent example is Fairfax publishing a piece by John McLean, a member of the International Climate Science Coalition. In the opinion piece, McLean repeats various lines designed to create uncertainty about the recent report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and to impute a sinister motive on IPCC members of political and scientific deception. He states that the...
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Australia swelters under a sham climate change policy after hottest year on record
2014-01-03 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's temperatures have warmed by "about 1° C since 1910" according to the Bureau of Meteorology, and 2013 was the hottest year since records began in 1910. In the last 11 months leading to November 2013 average temperatures "were 1.25°C above average" and 2013 saw maximum temperatures 1.45°C above the average. The full update is available from the BOM here. It bears repeating: 2013 was Australia's hottest year on record and globally the seventh hottest year on record. Most of Australia...
Australia: Hottest year sparks climate change fight
2014-01-03 05:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: A sweltering 2013, Australia's hottest year on record, is the product of climate change and the warming trend is set to continue, experts say. Labor and the Greens have also seized on the record-setting weather to accuse Prime Minister Tony Abbott of ignoring the science and listening to the "tinfoil hat brigade" about climate change. The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate statement shows that 2013 was Australia's hottest year since records began in 1910, with the hottest spring and summer,...
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