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Urban heat island effect big factor in climate change, Hong Kong records show
2014-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: Temperature and rainfall are the two most basic elements in climate change. So what can we learn from a study of local temperature records and why might it be that local factors other than carbon dioxide output are the main cause of rising temperatures in our city? Climate change is defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as that attributable directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and is in addition to natural...
More urgent than Ebola, climate change is a bigger threat and we need to act now
2014-10-18 22:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: The biggest threat to mankind is not war and international conflict its the fact that most governments never think about the long term. This week the US Defense Department said natural disasters from climate change will lead to more instability, disease and poverty. Ive been in Geneva for a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a group of politicians from 160 countries which champions human rights. I last visited Geneva eight years ago to discuss with the United Nations World...
Fossil fuel divestment: climate change activists take aim at Australia's banks
2014-10-18 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists will aim to give the big banks a $200m bloody nose on Saturday, in the latest round of what has been an increasingly bitter campaign to force the divestment of companies with fossil fuel interests. A national day of divestment will see more than 1,000 bank customers switch their accounts away from the big four banks: ANZ, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank and NAB. Campaign organisers Market Forces and 350.org claim that the major banks have already lost $250m worth of...
Lake Erie Toxic Algae, Blame Climate Change And Invasive Mussels
2014-10-17 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Lake Erie is increasingly plagued by toxic algae blooms each summer, and a new study suggests how climate change and mussels, of all things, may be to blame. On Thursday, the Columbus Dispatch reported on the new research and computer modeling, which show neither rising water temperatures nor runoff from fertilizers and sewage - the traditional causes cited - fully account for the blooms. According to the paper, published in Water Resources Research, climate change may be providing cyanobacteria...
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Australia: Climate change forcing rethink on fire risk, RFS chief Shane Fitzsimmons says
2014-10-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change is having an impact on every level of fire management, the New South Wales rural fire chief has said on the first anniversary of the Blue Mountains bushfires. The NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said with more days of high fire danger, there is now a shrinking window of opportunity to carry out back-burning and other hazard reduction. "If our window of opportunity continues to shrink, in order to get those really important pre-season activities underway...
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