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Climate change will make flights bumpier, study says
2013-04-14 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic Ocean on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere, according to a study by British scientists published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Turbulence is created by atmospheric pressure, jet streams, air around mountains, cold or warm weather fronts or thunderstorms, among other conditions....
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US and China forming Climate Change Working Group; say a more focused and urgent initiative required
2013-04-14 15:30:19| Green Car Congress
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Climate change could hit Atlanta hardest, UGA research predicts
2013-04-14 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Online Athens: The effects of climate change in Georgia might fall hardest on Atlanta and coastal counties, according to a University of Georgia graduate students research. Binita KC, a doctoral candidate in UGAs Department of Geography, mapped changing climate variables county by county, noting factors such as how much precipitation levels and temperatures have varied from historical averages, along with extreme weather measures -- flood, drought and heat waves. Then she added in measures of so-called...
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The growing climate change threat to world food supplies
2013-04-13 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, it was in protest at heavy-handed treatment and harassment in the province where he lived. But a host of new studies suggest that a major factor in the subsequent uprisings, which became known as the Arab spring, was food insecurity. Drought, rocketing bread prices, food and water shortages have all blighted parts of the Middle East. Analysts at the Centre for American Progress in Washington say a combination...
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US, China agree climate change working group
2013-04-13 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The United States and China will establish a joint working group on climate change, they said Saturday, adding that they had a shared view on the "increasing dangers" of global warming. The two countries "recognise that the increasing dangers presented by climate change measured against the inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative", they said in a joint statement issued in Beijing. The initiative came as US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Beijing...
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