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These Bipartisan Security Experts Say Climate Change Is A National Security Threat
2015-10-23 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This week, a full-page advertisement titled "Republicans and Democrats Agree: U.S. Security Demands Global Climate Action" ran in the Wall Street Journal. The statement was undersigned by 48 national security and foreign policy leaders, as well as diplomats and former members of Congress from both parties. It urged U.S. government officials and businesses to focus on this growing problem and tackle it before it`s too late. "This issue is critically important to the world`s most experienced security...
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Two Degrees: Will climate change cause an ocean food chain collapse?
2015-10-23 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Two of my passions are fishing and ocean conservation. So I was happy to be asked to explain the impact of climate change on the oceans' food chain by William Breyer, a reader of CNN's Two Degrees series from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. Breyer wrote: "I understand that not only are the oceans increasingly retaining more and more carbon dioxide, but the warming of their waters are reaching to ever increasing depths. This, in my opinion, is of particular concern as this may negatively affect...
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Fixing Exxons 40-year climate change scandal would be a great reason to have a time machine
2015-10-23 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fusion: Texas-based ExxonMobil, one of the world`s largest oil and gas companies, is the present day result of the long and winding history of the oil industry. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller`s Standard Oil Company, which, after being ruled an illegal monopoly way back in 1911, was broken up into Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and a couple other offshoots. Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. As an oil company, Exxon naturally has another long and convoluted history, one...
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Climate change more catastrophic for the global economy than we thought
2015-10-23 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When it comes to climate change, the dark truth is that most people couldnt care less about it crippling the environment. So instead, lets talk about something people tend to think about: dollars. A new study, published in Nature on Wednesday, suggests in pretty strong terms that climate change will do some serious wallet damage on a global scale. On average, the authors predict well see a 23 percent reduction in projected global output by 2100 due to climate change (relative to a world without...
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Fight climate change for global stability, says US defence and diplomacy figures
2015-10-22 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly 50 leaders of Americas defence and foreign policy establishment are calling on political and business leaders to think past tomorrow and lead the fight on climate change. In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal the experts 48 former secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, diplomats and members of Congress from both parties say it is time for America to claim global leadership on climate change. The appeal is intended to apply pressure to Republicans...
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