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Wary of Climate Change, Vanuatu Villagers Seek Higher Ground
2015-07-12 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Many people living in this coastal village in Vanuatu believe the March cyclone that sent waves surging through their homes was the latest and most dramatic sign of climate change. They are now considering rebuilding their entire community on higher ground. Cyclone Pam struck the Pacific archipelago three months ago, blasting the islands with winds of 270 kilometers (168 miles) per hour, killing at least 11 people and affecting 180,000 more by destroying their homes and crops. Many residents saw...
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Climate change: Controversial 'cloud brightening' project proposed Moss Landing
2015-07-12 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: A team of elder Silicon Valley scientists is building an audacious device that might solve one of humanity's most profound dilemmas -- a "cloud whitener" designed to cool a warming planet. The men -- retired physicists, engineers, chemists and computer experts from some of Silicon Valley's top tech companies -- have been meeting four days a week for seven years in the Sunnyvale lab of the Marine Cloud Brightening Project to design a tool that creates perfectly suspended droplets of water resembling...
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Global Climate Change: 20 Feet Underwater Optimistic Forecast
2015-07-11 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clapway: The future is dark, and the future is wet, says a new paper from the journal Science. Although it forecasts a thirty-five year wait for really heavy climate change, the paper claims that in this time, the sea levels can be expected to rise by at least 20 feet. To make matters bleaker, this is a best-case scenario forecast, i.e. the twenty feet is an optimistic minimum assuming we manage can manage, as a global society, to hold the global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius higher. Many, however, believe...
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Climate change is a security threat. Make it a foreign policy priority
2015-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In March of this year, researchers at U.C. Santa Barbara and Columbia published a paper linking climate change and extreme drought to the Syrian Civil War. It wasnt the first time that scientists and economists had connected the dots between climate and violent conflict. It wasnt even the first time that scientists had connected the dots between climate and conflict in Syria. For Syria, wrote the authors, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies,...
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Terror, climate change biggest challenge world: Modi in Turkmenistan
2015-07-11 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday termed terrorism and climate change as the biggest problems faced by the world saying the solutions to these can be found in Mahatma Gandhi's life and ideals. "The world has two biggest problems today. One is terrorism and the second is climate change. The solution to both these problems can be found in Mahatama Gandhi's life and his ideals," Modi said in Turkmenistan's capital. READ ALSO: PM Modi hails 'long-standing' ties between Turkmenistan, India...
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