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Climate change poses serious threats to food distribution
2015-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FERN: By now there has been a steady stream of news about climate changes impacts on food production. Heat waves, drought, and wildfire are damaging harvests in California, Australia and Brazil. Warming and acidifying oceans threaten seafood stocks. Rising temperatures are causing declines in crops as different as wheat and cherries, while extreme precipitation and floods have destroyed crops across the US and Europe. Increasing temperatures and CO2 levels are reducing the nutritional value of grasses...
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Climate change no longer problem for future generations
2015-03-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Climate change is no longer a serious problem, apparently. In the 2010 Intergenerational Report an entire chapter was dedicated to the topic. This time around, references to the subject have been reduced to a handful of paragraphs. "It is difficult for individual governments to control or affect the collective and cumulative impact of human activity globally, but there is a role for the Australian government to continue in its efforts in leading and co-ordinating domestic environmental policies...
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Intergenerational report: climate change silence in 2015 a stark contrast to 2010
2015-03-05 04:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five years ago the 2010 intergenerational report declared that climate change is the largest and most significant challenge to Australias environment. If climate change is not addressed, the consequences for the economy, water availability and Australias unique environment will be severe. But the 2015 report has struck a markedly different tone. Under the headline climate change, it records the governments emissions reduction target and the $2.55bn emissions reduction fund that it states...
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David Suzuki: Climate Change Is Real Threat, Not Activists Calling for Immediate Action
2015-03-04 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world. But the RCMP has a different take. A secret report by the national police force, obtained by Greenpeace, both minimizes the threat of global warming and conjures a specter of threats posed by people who rightly call for sanity in dealing with problems caused by burning fossil fuels. The RCMP report has come to light as federal politicians debate the anti-terrorism Bill C-51. Although...
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Climate Change Researcher Offers a Defense of His Practices
2015-03-03 10:05:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The scientist at the center of a controversy over fossil-fuel funding for climate research denounced his critics on Monday and said that he would be happy to comply with possible additional disclosure requirements from scientific journals publishing his papers. In his first detailed public statement since the controversy erupted more than a week ago, the scientist, Wei-Hock Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, complained that he had been the subject of unfair...
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