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Experts: Climate Change May Make Northeast Winter Storms Worse
2015-02-12 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The idea of a snow day is becoming less and less appealing as the city and surrounding areas suffer one winter storm after the other. Snow has been no friend to the Northeast this winter, and as another storm is ready to pummel the Northeast this weekend, climate change experts offer an explanation of why record-breaking amounts of precipitation may become a norm for the region. Simple physical laws will tell you that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, Dr. David Robinson, a state...
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Climate Change Is A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism, Says Obama
2015-02-12 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: US President Barack Obama believes climate change is a greater threat to national security in the United States than terrorism. His views on the issue were confirmed by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. In an interview with Vox, the president said he believes the media overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism as compared to climate change. Climate change affects many more lives directly than terrorism does. While terrorism regularly kills people, Earnest did...
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Ontario seeks input on climate change strategy, carbon pricing
2015-02-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The Ontario government is looking for public input on its climate change strategy, as it weighs whether to implement a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax. A 45-day consultation period will see town hall meetings held across the province and people can give feedback online and through social media. The government says the discussion paper will inform the government's decision -- expected to come this spring -- on which carbon pricing mechanism to adopt. The Liberal government committed...
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Brazil climate change plan backfires, doubling steel emissions
2015-02-10 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A plan to reduce climate-changing emissions from Brazil's steel industry has failed, causing the amount of carbon pollution produced by the sector to double in less than a decade, researchers said. Brazilian steel producers switched their energy source from coal to charcoal from forests, causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to rise to 182 million tonnes in 2007 from 91 million tonnes in 2000, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. "Increased global demand for steel,...
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AECOM Wins Leading Environmental And Climate Change Industry Awards
2015-02-09 05:24:01| pollutiononline Home Page
AECOM has been awarded three major environmental and climate change industry Awards from the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ). AECOM is a premier, fully integrated infrastructure and support services firm with a leading global environmental practice
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