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Climate Change and the US Strategy
2013-03-06 16:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AOL Energy: At a well-attended 2013 MIT Energy Conference, an expert panel explored the "big picture" questions surrounding climate change providing updated insights on pros and cons of available actions. While Sandy has made clear the critical state of the environment -- more so than 4 years worth of IPCC reports, notes Dr. Kerry Emanuel (Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT) -- international and domestic efforts to enact policies against climate change continue to stall. At a federal level, major regulation...
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Climate change brings less snow, tending to fall all at once
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ventura County Star: It does seem that every time some earnest group puts out a report on the dangers of global warming, theres a major Mother Nature event somewhere the next day. Turns out, theres an explanation for the seemingly regular appearance of once-in-50-year storms, one that, like most things having to do with climate change, is slightly ominous. Experts say that long-term we are likely to see more giant blizzards in the Northern Hemisphere but less snow overall, and the reason is that a warmer atmosphere...
EPA, Energy Department Can Tackle Climate Change on Several Fronts
2013-03-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Now that President Obama has selected his top climate and energy policymakers, having nominated Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Ernest Moniz as energy secretary and Environmental Protection Agency air and radiation administrator Gina McCarthy to head EPA, the question still looms: how much can they get done using executive authority alone? The answer: quite a lot, but it will involve taking some political risks. So here's a list of some of the options McCarthy and Moniz will take,...
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Climate change will open up surprising new Arctic shipping routes
2013-03-05 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Right now, the Arctic Ocean is still too icy and treacherous for open-water ships to traverse with any regularity. The Northwest Passage is only navigable during the summer months once every seven years or so. Too unreliable for commercial shipping. This will all get a lot easier. But that will soon change. As the planet keeps warming, the Arctic`s summer sea ice is vanishing at a stunning pace. That rapid melt is expected to have all sorts of sweeping impacts, from speeding up climate change...
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With Climate Change, a Bad Deal Gets Even Worse for the Global South
2013-03-05 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Nation: On the heels of 40,000 people taking to the streets of DC in the largest climate change mobilization in US history, the pressure on President Obama is building to take decisive action to curb carbon emissions. However, what's often missing from the US climate change movement are conversations about those people who are already most harmed by carbon emissions, and a historical understanding about how we got to this point. Along with Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree) and Ellen Dorsey, I was asked...
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