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Most Australians view climate change as already causing weather extremes: Ipsos
2015-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A clear majority of Australians view global warming as already causing extreme weather events such as storms, droughts and floods and just 3 per cent say "there is no such thing as climate change", according to the findings in an Ipsos survey. Just over 60 per cent of the 1063 respondents in the report the eighth annual survey on the subject viewed climate change as behind extreme events, with similar numbers also linking the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef and rising sea levels to warming...
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Australia PM advisor says climate change a UN-led ruse
2015-05-08 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's top business advisor on Friday claimed climate change was a ruse encouraged by the United Nations to create a new authoritarian world order under its control. Maurice Newman, chairman of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council, said the real agenda was "concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook". In a column for The Australian newspaper to coincide with a visit by UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, he added that the world...
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Manitoba infrastructure won't withstand climate change, expert says
2015-05-08 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A water security expert says climate change will have dire consequences on Manitoba's infrastructure and consequently its economy, unless something changes. Bob Sandford, EPCOR Water Security Research Chair at United Nations University, began working to help solve water-related climate issues in Manitoba a decade ago. His first focus was on Lake Winnipeg -- now his focus is the province's infrastructure. "You see that there are larger changes to the hydrologic cycle that are causing more frequent...
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Feds to require climate change plans for states seeking disaster relief
2015-05-05 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A new Federal Emergency Management Agency policy requiring states to address climate change before they can become eligible for grant funding is drawing fire from congressional Republicans. The regulations, part of a FEMA State Mitigation Plan Review Guide issued last month, are not set to take effect until next March. But lawmakers are demanding an explanation for the rules now. In a letter to FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate, the lawmakers said theyre concerned that the agencys decision...
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Scientists on 'strangest continent' Antarctica investigate effect climate change on animals
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: An eclectic group of scientists in Antarctica, known as the "strangest continent on earth", undertake painstaking research into the effects of climate change on local animals and the environment. King George Island is a remote speck of ice-covered mountains at the far north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is also the nearest thing in Antarctica to an accessible destination. Every summer, hundreds of scientists fly down from the bottom of South America to the island's gravel runway operated by...
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