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Is climate change behind storm that flooded parts of the UK?
2015-12-07 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The army has been deployed and tens of thousands of homes across Scotland and the north of England are without power after Storm Desmond dumped torrential rain across the area, causing major flooding. Early figures suggest there was a record-breaking downpour of rain as 340 millimetres fell in 24 hours in the Lake District, breaking a record of 316.4mm set in 2009. It`s too soon to know whether the storm can be attributed to climate change, but green groups point out it is just what the UK...
Will Climate Change Break the Global Food System?
2015-12-07 07:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: This commentary is co-authored by Carter Roberts, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Extreme weather events scuttling harvests. Skyrocketing food prices causing famine for millions and driving multitudes into poverty. Governments toppling - again - in Pakistan and Ukraine. Massive floods driving millions of refugees from their homes in Bangladesh and putting pressure on neighboring India. Droughts devastating harvests in traditional bread baskets like the U.S. and Brazil. The E.U.,...
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Monsanto Takes Action To Fight Climate Change With Carbon Neutral Crop Production Program
2015-12-07 01:31:47| pollutiononline News Articles
As agriculture and farmers around the world work to mitigate and adapt to the complex challenges posed by climate change, Monsanto Company recently announced plans to make its operations carbon neutral by 2021 through a unique program targeted across its seed and crop protection operations, as well as through collaboration with farmers
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Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won't the GOP?
2015-12-07 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: To understand how dangerously extreme the Republican Party has become on climate change, compare its stance to that of ExxonMobil. No one would confuse the oil and gas giant with the Sierra Club. But if you visit Exxons website , you will find that the company believes climate change is real, that governments should take action to combat it and that the most sensible action would be a revenue-neutral tax on carbon -- in other words, a tax on oil, gas and coal, with the proceeds returned to taxpayers...
Blume Extends Climate Change Wins, Announcing eThala Joint Development Agreement For Appropriate-Scale Purpose Grown Crop To Bioethanol In South Africa
2015-12-07 00:27:42| chemicalonline Home Page
Blume Distillation LLC, the leading provider of appropriate-scale Biorefinery production equipment, announced recentlythe completion of a Joint Development Agreement with eThala BioFuels, an Agro-Processing, Energy and Services company located in Durban, South Africa
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