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Naomi Klein: Climate change will make world meaner and uglier
2016-03-04 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Colorado Independent: Journalist, social activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein addressed a packed house at the University of Colorado Boulder Thursday about the battle between capitalism and climate change. The university`s Cultural Events Board and student divestment group Fossil Free CU brought Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, to talk about her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. The books central thesis is that we must restructure the global economy,...
Carbon tax wrangling center stage at Canada climate change talks
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Strains over stalled Canadian oil pipeline projects and Ottawa's push to impose a national carbon price hung over talks on Thursday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the country's 10 provinces on how to tackle global warming. Trudeau's Liberal Party won an election last October on a pledge to do much more than the previous administration to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, which are climbing as firms exploit Canada's vast crude-rich oil sands. Behind the scenes, Trudeau officials have...
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Climate change could cause an extra 500000 deaths in 2050
2016-03-04 06:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer, and heart disease, experts said on Wednesday. As extreme weather such as floods and heat waves wreaks havoc with harvests and crop yields, estimated increases in food availability could be cut by a third by 2050, according to the experts' study published in The Lancet medical journal. This would lead to a reduction of 99 calories available...
Study Finds Climate Change May Drive Wealth Inequality
2016-03-03 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courthouse News Service: Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change are driving fish populations to cooler water, and the changes will have an "inevitable and unpredictable" impact on the world's economy, according to a study by university researchers. Researchers say important fish species are relocating closer to the Earth's poles because of continued global warming and their migration could devastate certain fishing-based economies. The changes are shifting natural resources from nations near the equator and...
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Climate Change Could Cause Half a Million Deaths in 2050, Due to Reduced Food Availability
2016-03-03 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: By 2050, global climate change will have made its mark on nutritional health. New research published March 2 in The Lancet finds that by making food less available, climate change could account for more than 500,000 deaths that year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate change already has reduced crop yields. For example, in Brazil corn yields are down 8 percent, and in Russia wheat yield has dropped 14 percent. When crop yield goes down, food prices go up, as do a whole...
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