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Major businesses call for climate change laws
2013-04-10 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Several major companies issued a joint call Wednesday for the United States to enact legislation to battle climate change, saying that the issue was critical to their businesses. Thirty-three firms including online retailer eBay, tech giant Intel, coffee leader Starbucks and sportswear makers Adidas, Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Timberland called climate change a threat that required coordinated action. "We cannot risk our kids` futures on the false hope that the vast majority of scientists...
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Climate Change Could Hurt Winemaking, Wildlife
2013-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Climate change could dampen spirits. Literally. That's according to a new worldwide analysis of global warming on wine production, which appeared this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers found the area suitable for wine production will shrink by as much as 73 percent by 2050 in certain parts of the globe -- about 70 percent in California -- with high potential for stress on rivers and other freshwater ecosystems, as vineyards use water to cool grapes...
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French wine could get pricey, climate change study says
2013-04-10 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: That bottle of Bordeaux you put aside may become even rarer in the next few decades as climate change could reduce wine grape production in traditional parts of the world and move it elsewhere, researchers say. Danish Cabernet, anyone? Wine grape production's sensitivity to climate makes it a good test case for what could happen over the next several decades. And the land suitable for viticulture in current major wine producing regions could be reduced by 20% to 70% by 2050, depending on the amount...
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Climate change included in US science teaching guidelines for the first time
2013-04-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: American school children will for the first time receive extensive lessons on climate change following the adoption on Tuesday of new science education guidelines. However, the final standards were substantially weakened from earlier drafts. The final guidelines cut by about a third the amount of time devoted to a subject seen as critical to future generations. They are also less explicit than earlier drafts about the human role as a driver for climate change. "It's buried at best," said...
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Olympians to Obama: climate change is jeopardising winter sports' survival
2013-04-09 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Olympic medallists in snowboarding and skiing have called on Barack Obama on to save winter sports by taking ambitious measures against climate change. In a letter to the White House, 75 champions, including pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Olympians Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Jacobellis said a run of record warm years and sporadic snowfalls jeopardised the survival of their sports and a winter tourism industry worth $12bn a year. "As professional athletes, representing a community of 23 million...
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