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Christie Administration Ignores Climate Change in New Jersey's Post-Sandy Rebuild
2013-12-19 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of aggressive rebuilding initiatives to protect New Yorkers from future climate-related threats. But less than a mile away in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, political leaders reacted in a much different way. To them, the October 2012 superstorm was just a rare event, not a preview of what scientists expect global warming to bring to the East Coast in the coming decades. When asked in May...
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Reddit forum bans climate change 'deniers'
2013-12-18 20:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The social news site Reddit is banning climate change deniers from its science forum, a moderator for the site said. Nathan Allen, the moderator for the forum /r/science which provides a digital space for people to discuss recent, peer-reviewed science publications wrote about the move to ban skeptics of climate science on Grist. A representative for Reddit confirmed the decision with The Hill. While the science forum is a small section of Reddit, it has 4 million subscribers, Allen noted,...
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Climate change divides political parties in Iowa, nation
2013-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: In contrast with a strengthening consensus among Iowa scientists, the states political leaders remain divided along party lines about the role of human activity in climate change. Iowas climate will likely continue to warm due to increasing emissions of heat-trapping gases, said this years Iowa Climate Statement, signed by 155 Iowa scientists, up sharply from the 44 who signed the 2011 statement. Chris Anderson, assistant director of the Iowa State University Climate Science Program and a...
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Climate change puts 40% more people at risk of absolute water scarcity, study says
2013-12-17 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Water scarcity impacts people's lives in many countries already today. Future population growth will increase the demand for freshwater even further. Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated greenhouse-gas emissions within our century is likely to put 40 percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity than would be without climate change, a new study shows by using an unprecedented...
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Why climate change threatens Peru's poverty reduction mission
2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Peruvian Amazon became a net emitter of carbon dioxide rather than oxygen for the first time in 2012, according to the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) latest human development country report. The reversal of the rainforest's usual role as a carbon sink is a direct result of the droughts in the western Amazon in 2005 and 2010 and a stark reminder, say scientists, that this mega-biodiverse country is highly vulnerable to climate change. Peru, which has four of the five geographical areas...
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