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Fires burning managed areas: Climate change overwhelms best efforts
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Idaho wildfires burned so hot this summer they scorched even intensely-managed areas, a sign climate change, hot temperatures and extremely dry fuels may trump even mans best efforts to put a dent in forest blazes. The Idaho Statesman reports the Elk Complex Fire in August burned 6,000 acres of intensively managed state endowment forests, in addition to nearby Boise National Forest that had recently been logged. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Sen. Jim Risch have called for a return to more-aggressive...
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Harper sent Obama climate change offer to win Keystone
2013-09-06 10:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, trying to win U.S. backing for the Keystone XL pipeline, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama proposing joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector, CBC News said on Friday. The White House has not responded to the letter, which was sent in late August, CBC said, although Harper met Obama briefly during the just-ended G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama has the final say over whether to let the pipeline cross...
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Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...
Japan commits to address climate change, other challenges in Pacific
2013-09-06 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kyodo: Japan vowed Friday to continue helping Pacific island nations address climate change and other challenges such as disasters as it expressed appreciation for a declaration issued here by countries comprising the Pacific Islands Forum. "We are islanders. As an island country in the Pacific Ocean, Japan is willing to contribute to a robust development of this region as a whole under common objectives and vision," Shunichi Suzuki, senior vice foreign minister, said at the 25th Pacific Islands Forum...
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Al Gores Incredible Shrinking Climate Change Footprint
2013-09-06 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BuzzFeed: Last January, Al Gore took a boatload of scientists, donors, and celebrities to Antarctica to talk about climate change. Richard Branson, James Cameron, Ted Turner, Tom Brokaw, and Tommy Lee Jones joined more than 100 other paying guests -- Gore`s handpicked best and brightest -- on the National Geographic Explorer, an ice-class 367-foot cruise ship, to see "up close and personal" the effects of a warming planet, courtesy of the former vice president`s environmental nonprofit, the Climate Reality...
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