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Impact of climate change growing in Ohio
2013-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marion Star: When most people hear climate change, they think of claims that fossil fuel use and deforestation have resulted in stronger hurricanes, intense heat waves and drought. Many others look at such claims as junk science and scare tactics. But a certain amount of conjecture and debate on these matters is healthy. Its OK to be skeptical, but proof of climate change in Ohio can be found across the state. Algae growing in Lake Erie and other smaller inland lakes, buggy conditions earlier in the year,...
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Climate change our most serious security threat
2013-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Ask Adm. Samuel Locklear III, commander of the U.S. military's sprawling Pacific Command, what his most serious threat is, and you might be surprised. There's a long list of possibilities, after all: North Korean nukes, rising Chinese military power and aggressive cyberespionage, multiple territorial disputes between major powers and persistent insurgencies from the Philippines to Thailand, not to mention protecting some of the world's most vulnerable shipping choke points. Add all of that up, though,...
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Cold, hard truths of climate change are catching up with us
2013-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Post: The discovery this month of a dead polar bear consisting of little more than a sad rug of skin and bones, lying on the earth at Svalbard far north into the Arctic, should be a worry, and a warning that precious life on earth is being threatened by thoughtlessness and the greed of powerful politicians and commercial interests. It is only going to get worse. The bear starved to death, a victim of the melting Arctic ice: it did not have the sea ice from which to hunt seals, so it had to wander far...
Is climate change humanity's greatest-ever risk management failure?
2013-08-23 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Humans are generally very risk-averse. We buy insurance to protect our investments in homes and cars. For those of us who don't have universal health care, most purchase health insurance. We don't like taking the chance - however remote - that we could be left unprepared in the event that something bad happens to our homes, cars, or health. Climate change seems to be a major exception to this rule. Managing the risks posed by climate change is not a high priority for the public as a whole, despite...
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Australia: Labor Minister Mike Kelly defends 'alarmist' climate change remarks
2013-08-22 04:38:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: LABOR Minister Mike Kelly has claimed that abolishing the carbon tax would turn the Snowy Mountains into the ?Sandy Mountains?, the Sapphire Coast into the ?Saline Coast? and the Bega Valley into ?Death Valley?. The Eden-Monaro MP yesterday denied his comments defending the Clean Energy Future package were alarmist, saying they would be the long-term climate change impacts for tourism and agricultural industries in his NSW electorate. But as Labor battles to explain the deeply unpopular carbon...
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