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Why Climate Change Should be a Conservative Issue
2015-11-02 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The word "conservative" means something different today from what it used to. Conservatives have traditionally understood the importance of stability--and the dangers of disrupting the established order. They considered it a responsibility to preserve their heritage and pass it down intact to the next generation. Conservatives have been the guardians of tradition because they saw that what our forebears created is a great achievement, built with difficulty over time. They understood that it is...
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India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says
2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...
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Climate change could have a significant impact on our economy
2015-11-02 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Climate change may have many economic impacts, including loss of crops, changes in water supply, increased incidence of natural disaster, and spikes in health care costs related to infectious diseases and temperature-related illnesses. However, hard evidence about the effects of climate change on economic activity has been inconsistent. A new paper published in Nature takes on the ambitious task of connecting micro- and macro-level estimates of climate costs. The study finds that climate change...
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Personalizing climate change: spy cameras document polar bear behaviors on and off sea ice
2015-11-02 10:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Polar bear populations are threatened by the loss of Arctic sea ice they use for hunting, and filmmakers and researchers are using remote cameras to better understand how the bears use ice and respond to the novel conditions resulting from global climate change. As Alysa McCall, field programs manager at Polar Bears International, explained in an email to WildTech, Remote camera systems provide the opportunity for nearly undisturbed observations of wildlife behavior.[F]or understanding an individual...
Climate change claims a new victim: The slow demise of Califonia's golden trout
2015-11-02 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Driving through the Owens Valley, a scenic 75-mile-long, U-shaped cul-de-sac on the east side of the Sierras, confirmed extremely dry conditions. Californias prolonged drought wasnt just visible in the low stream flows, charred hillsides and snowless Sierra Nevada Mountains, but I could hear it. In the small town of Lone Pine, I overheard a man say: I guess we wont get to shower until next winter. The water situation for local fish isnt much better. For my journey a days drive followed...
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