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As Climate Change Warms Oceans, Fish Move Toward Poles
2014-10-13 22:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Fish are moving toward the poles, and its not because of their magnetism. New research out of the University of British Columbia reveals that climate change -- and more specifically, warmer ocean temperatures -- could result in a large-scale shift of marine fish and invertebrates, notes a UBC news release. The tropics could be fishless by 2050, according to the researchers. The tropics will be the overall losers, William Cheung, a UBC associate professor and study co-author, said in...
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Climate ChangeDenying Candidates Targeted by Green Billionaire Change Tune
2014-10-13 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TakePart: Billionaire former hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer is spending $50 million of his own money to make climate change a defining issue in the 2014 midterm elections. That, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks, is just "stupid." The superrich San Francisco environmental activist could have spent the money "paying for kids to go to college," wrote Brooks on Oct. 10. "Instead he has spent that much money this year further enriching the people who own TV stations. What a waste." Except...
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Pentagon: Climate change a national security threat
2014-10-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Pentagon is integrating climate change threats into all of its "plans, operations, and training" across the entire Defense Department, signaling a comprehensive attempt to tackle the impacts of global warming. In a 20-page Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap released on Monday, the Pentagon details its strategic blueprint to address climate change, calling it a "threat multiplier" that has the power to "exacerbate" many of the challenges the U.S. faces today, including "infectious diseases and...
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Climate change is like Ebola World Bank chief
2014-10-13 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim has compared climate change to Ebola, suggesting that inaction on both is killing people. Speaking at the World Banks annual meeting with the International Monetary Fund, Kim said that the Banks work on climate change was informing its response to the deadly disease, which has killed over 4,000 people mainly in West Africa. Ebola and climate change have a few things in common. Most importantly, we are running out of time to find solutions to both, he said....
Climate change demands 'national effort' to protect Atlantic wild salmon
2014-10-13 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Climate change impacts on Atlantic wild salmon are so severe that a co-ordinated national effort is required to protect the stock, according to Salmon Watch Ireland (SWIRL). The non-governmental organisation, which is dedicated to conservation and restoration to abundance of wild salmon, has called on the Government to establish a national salmon conservation commission to deal with what it describes as a crisis in stock levels. Changes in weather patterns including flash flooding and...
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