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Climate change could mean extinction for Iberian lynx in 50 years
2013-07-22 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The world's most endangered feline species may become extinct in the wild within 50 years, researchers say, a victim of climate change. A new report projects that Iberian lynx could become the first cat species in at least 2,000 years to become extinct, researchers found, largely because of the decline of the European rabbit, which makes up 80% of the cat's diet. The report, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change, warns that current efforts to boost population of the distinctive...
Schumer asks DOT to investigate how climate change is affecting trains
2013-07-22 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday asked the Department of Transportation to look into heat-related problems for Northeastern trains and subways, saying high temperatures from global climate change could be causing derailments. It is clear that high temperatures have a devastating effect on our transit system, Schumer said Monday. We need to look at ways to mitigate that, just as we are doing with storms and floods. Schumer said this months heat wave has created issues for New York...
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Climate change slowdown is due to warming of deep oceans, say scientists
2013-07-22 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A recent slowdown in the upward march of global temperatures is likely to be the result of the slow warming of the deep oceans, British scientists said on Monday. Oceans are some of the Earth's biggest absorbers of heat, which can be seen in effects such as sea level rises, caused by the expansion of large bodies of water as they warm. The absorption goes on over long periods, as heat from the surface is gradually circulated to the lower reaches of the seas. Temperatures around the world have...
Why Global Climate Change Policies Are So Darn Hard to Negotiate
2013-07-22 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PolicyMic: In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio in June of that year. Since 1995, the parties to the convention have met annually to assess progress dealing with climate change, and to negotiate treaties and provisions to try and reduce the impact of climate change. One of the outcomes of the UNFCCC, for instance, is the Kyoto Protocol, established in 1997. Last year, I had the...
Obama's Climate Change Math Doesn't Add Up
2013-07-22 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News and World Report: All we need to know about the president's speech on climate change is revealed by what's missing: Nowhere did he tell us what effects on future temperatures or climate can be expected from his policy proposals on greenhouse gases (GHG). So let's do that math. U.S. GHG emissions are about 17 percent of global emissions. If we apply the widely accepted MAGICC climate model developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and if we assume the international Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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