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Climate change taskforce from NZ to visit Tuvalu, Kiribati
2016-01-11 02:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: A team of MPs from New Zealand's opposition Labour Party will visit Tuvalu and Kiribati next month to see first-hand how the countries are dealing with climate change. Labour's special climate change task force will also look at what can be done to mitigate the problems the small island countries face due to rising seas. The party's Pacific Climate Change spokesperson Su'a William Sio says Labour also wants to review the whole issue of what makes a climate change refugee and what the legal definition...
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Antarctic scientists head to biological hotspot studying climate change in Southern Ocean
2016-01-10 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: For the first time since Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions in the 1920s and 1930s, scientists will be conducting climate studies in the area known as the Kerguelen Plateau, in the Southern Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau, hundreds of kilometres north of Mawson Station, is one of only three lines of longitude where the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows across the Antarctic continental shelf, the deep ocean and subantarctic islands. That makes it one of the most highly productive regions...
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Climate Change Could Cause Power Blackouts Worldwide
2016-01-09 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TakePart: The record heat waves and devastating droughts that accompany climate change could also hurt the worlds electricity production, according to a new study. As temperatures warm and drought periods grow longer and more severe over the next 50 years, the water levels in rivers and lakes are expected to fall. For 98 percent of the worlds power plants, thats a problem that could result in a 30 percent decrease in electricity production in some months at most power stations. Natural water flow...
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Why climate change is an ethical problem
2016-01-09 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Stephen M. Gardiner is professor of philosophy, and Ben Rabinowitz is endowed professor of the human dimensions of the environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. Climate change presents a severe ethical challenge, forcing us to confront difficult questions as individual moral agents, and even more so as members of larger political systems. It is genuinely global and seriously intergenerational, and crosses species boundaries. It also takes place in a setting where existing institutions...
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Dealing with climate change in Costa Rica's treasured Monteverde cloud forest
2016-01-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Climate change is one of the most troubling problems of the decade. It already has caused significant consequences across the globe, and Costa Rica is no exception. The cloud forest of Monteverde, in north-central Costa Rica, is one of the greenest tourist destinations in the country, and it has witnessed the consequences of climate change. Since the 1970s, the Tropical Scientific Center, or TSC, has been tasked with recording these consequences in different areas of the country, especially in...
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