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Microsoft cuts ties with climate change denier legislation group ALEC
2014-08-23 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: The group has been quietly operating under the radar since 1973 and has recruited companies, lawmakers and conservative nonprofit organizations to fund anti-government agendas. One of the most overriding goals of ALEC is proposing laws that block regulations to curb carbon emissions and renewable energy, while promoting limited government, free markets and federalism at the state level. Ultimately, ALECs ascension has been marred by increasingly unpopular moves to suppress votes, privatize...
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Climate change and the methane crisis: Q & A with Harold Hensel
2014-08-23 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: With climate change rearing its ugly head with extreme weather disasters pounding the globe, some people have been connecting the dots to the horrifying conclusion that there is yet another catastrophe underway with implications far exceeding what most of us could ever dream of: an unfolding methane crisis of epic proportions. Capable of causing a planetary extinction, record high amounts of methane are insidiously being released into the oceans and going into our atmosphere. Methane, a colorless...
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Climate Change Threatens Agriculture: ADB
2014-08-23 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Leader: Climate change will affect South Asia more than most other regions. South Asias weather is likely to become hotter than the global average, while monsoon rains and heavy storms will increase in most parts of the region. Mountainous countries would face increased flooding and landslides, while the coastal countries of the region such as Sri Lanka, are likely to be partly inundated by sea-level rise. This could lead to widespread degradation of Sri Lankas coastal and agricultural resources and could...
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Climate Change Could Happen Slower for Next Decade, Study Says
2014-08-22 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Temperatures have risen more slowly in the past decade than in the previous 50 years and will continue to rise at a somewhat slower rate in the next decade, according to a new study, even as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unprecedented levels worldwide. The study, published in the journal Science, explained the temporary slowdown in rising temperatures as a potential consequence of the end of a 30-year current cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that pushes heat into the ocean. "In...
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Film Narrated By Leo DiCaprio Presents A Clear Climate Change Solution: Price Carbon
2014-08-22 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Ahead of the 2014 UN Climate Summit on Sept. 23, "Carbon" attempts to move the debate forward, exploring how governments worldwide are putting a price on carbon through carbon trading or carbon taxes. "Carbon" is the first film in Green World Rising, a four-part series narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio that focuses on climate change challenges and solutions. Given the alarming list of severe climate impacts in the Arctic, in the South Seas and in places closer to home like New York City and California,...
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