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Obama: Climate change biggest threat to U.S. national parks
2016-06-18 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says climate change is the biggest threat to U.S. national parks. Obama says meadows are already drying out at Yosemite National Park in California, where he spoke Saturday after spending the night in the park with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. He adds that a rabbit-like animal known as a pika is being forced further upslope in Yosemite to escape warming temperatures. Obama and his family are spending the weekend at Yosemite after touring an underground...
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Q&A: this professor talks climate change in the oil industry's training ground
2016-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: John Geissman heads the department of geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, responsible for the education of the next generation of geoscientists. He is also a member of the development board of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a perch from where he works to raise money for the organization. He has included a substantial bequest for the AGU in his will, as well. Among geoscientists in Texas, however, Geissman is an outlier. He believes the world must keep fossil fuels in the ground...
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Obama says climate change already damaging national parks
2016-06-18 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change is already damaging America's national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out and raising the prospect of a glacier preserve without its glaciers someday. "Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It's already a reality," Obama said from a podium, with Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest at 2,425 feet, as a backdrop. At the California park, where Obama was spending the weekend with...
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Climate Change Denial Threatens Our Planet and is Driving Us Crazy
2016-06-18 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy is a great new book by climate scientist Michael Mann and cartoonist Tom Toles. This book serves many purposes. It includes an overview of the basic science of climate change and human caused global warming. It has a compendium of many of the key science deniers, and a description of the well known taxonomy of science denial ("It`s Not Happening!", "OK, It`s Happening but It`s...
Climate change and the threat to our cultural heritage
2016-06-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The timing was grimly appropriate. No sooner had the United Nations stressed the risk that climate change poses to world heritage sites than curators at the Louvre, in Paris, rushed to move 250,000 artworks to safety from flooding. Extreme weather had forced the closure of one of the worlds most famous museums a museum, whats more, that is at the heart of the Banks of the Seine world heritage site, which stretches from the Eiffel Tower to the Īle St Louis, and where the river rose 6m above its...
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