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Dangers of climate change offer risk and opportunity for Gulf
2013-02-24 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The National: The very source of the Middle East's riches threatens to ruin it. Climate change will bring even hotter temperatures, rising sea-levels inundating low-lying Arabian Gulf countries, food shortages and droughts destabilising volatile, populous neighbours. But the counters to global warming considered so far, promising as they are, have two fatal flaws, detailed below. A solution is on the horizon - if the wealthy oil exporters have the imagination to seize it. The region has become rich on the...
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Warning on Scotland's climate change targets
2013-02-24 04:37:07| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: SCOTLAND will continue to fail climate change targets almost every year under the SNPs policies for achieving its green ambitions, environmentalists warn. The Scottish Governments latest draft report outlining how it will reach each annual goal from now until 2027 shows that the policies it currently contains will only make it possible to hit this years ?annual carbon emissions reduction target. Ministers maintain that if all their proposals in the draft are also implemented and they succeed...
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Urbanites combat climate change with rooftop farms
2013-02-23 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: President Obama brought the issue of climate change out of exile during his State of the Union address by issuing a demand for Congress: if they don`t act swiftly, he will. But as Congress continues to lightly mull a plan of action, urban visionaries John Stoddard and Courtney Hennessey of Higher Ground Farm are cultivating their own solution to environmental problems. "In our vision we`ve got this amazing green roof that produces food and then also has these great environmental benefits, one...
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India: 'Climate change to hit crop yield'
2013-02-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: There is going to be a major shift in crop pattern across the state and the yields of different agriculture and horticulture crops will be reduced owing to climate change over the years, according to agriculture scientists. Scientists in the field of climate change met at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, (UAS-B) on Thursday to discuss adaptive strategies to meet challenges of climate change. According to Prof M B Rajegowda, Agro-meteorologist at UAS-B, temperatures are likely...
Obama Administration Moves Forward on Climate Change Without Congress
2013-02-22 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News and World Report: President Barack Obama is tired of waiting for Congress to move on legislation to reduce carbon emissions, and his administration is poised to move forward on actions to do just thatincluding a move that will effectively eliminate the possibility of any new coal plant opening in the United States, experts say. "We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence," Obama said...
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