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Corporate Australia in denial over climate change, former coal exec Ian Dunlop says
2014-08-15 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Corporate Australia is in complete denial about climate change, according to former fossil fuels executive and energy commentator Ian Dunlop. Mr Dunlop, a former chairman of the Coal Association, said business should be condemning the chairman of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council (BAC), Maurice Newman, for claiming the Earth is cooling. A newspaper article by Mr Newman said that governments, including the former Labor government, followed biased research "like primitive civilisations...
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Tuvalu PM says climate change 'like weapon of mass destruction'
2014-08-15 07:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga likened the impact of climate change on Pacific island nations to "a weapon of mass destruction" Friday, saying strong global leadership on the issue was needed. File photo taken in February 2004 shows the South Pacific pounding the coastline of Tuvalu's Funafuti Atoll as king tides caused by climate change threaten the tiny island nation - by Torsten Blackwood Sopoaga said a UN-sponsored summit on climate change in New York next month was a chance to set...
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NJ announces climate change mapping website
2014-08-14 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsworks: Rutgers scientists and data managers announced a new climate change mapping website for New Jersey this week. NJADAPT.org contains interactive maps that allow community planners to see how infrastructure, population and the environment are vulnerable to storm surges, coastal flooding, and sea level rise. "We heard from a number of people who are doing community-based work that they're interested in certain assets or certain infrastructure within their communities," said Jennifer Rovito, a Rutgers...
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Ebola & Climate Change: How Are They Connected?
2014-08-14 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the Ebola virus is ravaging parts of West Africa, recent reports are linking the outbreak to past studies holding climate change accountable for the uptick in viral diseases. In 2006, a study published in the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene revealed that Ebola, a violent hemorrhagic fever that leads to internal and external bleeding, would be more frequent with global warming due to its intermittent connection to wildlife and climate. In 2008, another...
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Study focuses droughts & climate change in Sierra & beyond
2014-08-14 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reno Gazette-Journal: The lingering drought now affecting Reno-area water supplies could be a sign of things to come, with scientists now studying how the region might respond to future droughts associated with a warming climate. Researchers with University of Nevada, Reno, the Desert Research Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey are embarking on a $3.8 million project designed to examine the expected impacts of climate change, with the idea of developing policy options to deal with droughts of the future. "These...
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