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Are West Virginia's floods the result of climate change? And a congressman gone AWOL
2016-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: For a state that has been racked with recession and unemployment, the flash floods that have ravaged West Virginia dont help much. But the key question to ask no matter how unpleasant is whether the coal sector there shares some of the blame. At issue is the concept of climate change and whether the warmer atmosphere is holding more water and therefore intensifying the storms. To that end, West Virginias prime industry has been coal, a fuel that when burned is responsible for a third of...
Climate change: UK backs world-leading climate target
2016-06-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK government has set a world-leading climate change target up to the early 2030s. The Fifth Carbon Budget will cut carbon emissions by 57% by 2032 - that's based on 1990 levels. The announcement will help reassure investors needed to overhaul the UK's ageing energy system. But the government's advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has warned the targets will be missed unless policies are improved. Labour's Barry Gardiner urged tougher policies, although he said: "At a time of...
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Impact of climate change on animals in Himalayas
2016-06-30 11:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: While the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has launched a long-term monitoring studies in five Himalayan states including Himachal Pradesh to document the impact of climate change on animal biodiversity, a study conducted by State Centre on Climate Change, Himachal Pradesh, has already found that in Himachal Pradesh a number of diseases occurred in the past ten years. Some diseases among these are worsened by climate change including influenza, cholera, babesiosis, verminous pneumonia, tuberculosis,...
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Human-Caused Climate Change Occur, Scientific Groups Remind US Congress
2016-06-30 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Natural World News: The new NASA global data set combines historical measurements with data from climate simulations using the best available computer models to provide forecasts of how global temperature (shown here) and precipitation might change up to 2100 under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. June 9, 2015. Human-caused climate change is real, some of the leading scientific groups in the United States remind lawmakers. In a letter dated June 28, 31 major scientific organizations make it clear...
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Brexit is not a vote against climate change says UNs climate chief
2016-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britains decision to leave the European Union was not a vote against climate change, nor was it a vote against the innovation key to fighting climate change, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told an audience of business and policymakers at the annual Business & Climate summit in London today. In her last speech as the head of UNs climate change body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figueres said, Its absolutely clear that should article 50 be triggered, the UK would have...
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