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Climate change measures 'primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices appease gods'
2014-08-14 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The Abbott government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling. Maurice Newman, who has been vocal in his climate change scepticism, has attacked governments, including the former Labor government, for pursuing "green gesture politics" by introducing carbon price signals in an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned News Corp publication The Australian. He likened...
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How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
2014-08-14 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Not long ago, my newspaper informed me that glaciers in the western Antarctic, undermined by the warmer seas of a hotter world, were collapsing, and their disappearance now appears to be unstoppable. The melting of these great ice sheets would make seas rise by at least four feetultimately, possibly 12more than enough to flood cities from New York to Tokyo to Mumbai. Because I am interested in science, I read the two journal articles that had inspired the story. How much time do we have, I wondered,...
UN: climate change investment could secure Africas development
2014-08-13 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Investment in climate change investment adaptation in Africa is vital to ensure that decades of development progress in the country is not reversed, according to a report by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As the effects of climate change impact Africa, the steps the country has taken to grow and secure a sustainable and more equitable future could be placed at risk, the report states. UNEP estimates that by 2050 Africas population will have doubled, reaching 2 billion people, with...
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In China, Climate Change Is Already Here
2014-08-13 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diplomat: Northern China is currently experiencing a severe drought. Xinhua reports that Henan Province, one of Chinas top grain producers, has suffered economic losses of 7.3 billion renminbi ($1.2 billion) due to the drought, with agriculture representing 97 percent of those losses. Neighboring Hebei Province is also suffering, with rainfall levels in some areas at less than 50 percent of yearly averages. Liaoning Province, meanwhile, is in the midst of its worst drought since the province began keeping...
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US Secretary State Kerry raises climate change in brief Solomons stop
2014-08-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flagged cooperation on tackling climate change during a brief stop in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, where he emphasized ties dating back to World War Two. Kerry is the first secretary of state to visit the Solomon Islands. His trip is viewed as an important part of President Barack Obama's strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, something that has irked China and been questioned by allies who wonder about the extent of U.S. commitment there. "We...
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