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It's Hard to Argue With Climate Change When You See Over 100 Years of Data at Once
2016-02-18 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mic: It's no secret there's a huge disparity between what Americans think about climate change and what most scientists think about climate change. Opinions on climate change vary, but there are a few indisputable facts that are hard to ignore. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide. Humans have burned a lot of fossil fuels over the last couple centuries, which in turn has released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and...
Climate change activists disrupt Utah oil and gas auction
2016-02-18 01:34:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016 photo, environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams with her bidding number walks on the hallway of the Bureau of Land Management's Salt Lake City office. Oil and gas industry officials have said environmental writer Tempest Williams' bid on at least 800 acres is insignificant.
How climate change will affect western groundwater
2016-02-18 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new report is the first to integrate scientists' knowledge about groundwater in the U.S. West with scientific models that show how climate change will affect the region. "We wanted to know, 'What are the expectations for increases and decreases in groundwater as we go forward in this century?'" said lead...
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Key halting climate change: admit we can't save everything
2016-02-17 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change, and human resistance to making the changes needed to halt it, both continue apace: 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history, we may be on the brink of a major species extinction event in the ocean, and yet political will is woefully lacking to tackle this solvable problem. Given these dire ecological trends, limited public funding and legislative gridlock, the time is ripe for a budget-neutral, executive-branch approach for managing our natural resources: triage. A science-based...
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Can climate change cause wars?
2016-02-17 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: For decades, psychologists have studied the links between temperature and aggression. Whatever the mechanism, it seems to be the case that with spikes in heat come spikes in violence. How can we understand this effect, and what might it mean for the risk of larger scale conflicts like war? Check out the video above. After all, were living in a warming world.
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