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Central India seeing long-term climate change Government
2014-08-03 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Real Time News: Central India, an area that covers Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, are seeing a long-term pattern of climate change involving rainfall intensity, the government of India said. "Heavy rain events (>10 cm/day) over central India are increasing at about 1%/year while weak and moderate events are decreasing at about the same rate over the past 50 years. The extreme rain events which are becoming more intense in recent years are localized and could be part of...
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Tuvalu climate change family win NZ residency appeal
2014-08-03 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: A Tuvalu family has been granted New Zealand residency after claiming it would be affected by climate change if it returned home. It is the first successful application for residency on humanitarian grounds in which climate change has featured, but the Immigration and Protection Tribunal said the family had strong ties to New Zealand. Environmental law expert Vernon Rive said the tribunal would be keen to avoid opening the floodgates to other climate change refugee claims. The international...
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MIT study links climate change, air pollution and decreasing food supplies
2014-08-02 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: MIT research published in the journal Nature Climate Change warns that rising temperatures and air pollution will combine to have negative effect on crop yield, placing pressure on the food system. Several separate pieces of research of linked falling crop yields with climate change. Research from Stanford University suggests that climate change makes it 20 times more likely for corn and wheat crop production to decrease, whilst a study from the University of Leeds found climate change could have...
Climate change will leave wine-drinkers drunker and poorer
2014-08-02 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: On Jul. 17, Australia scrapped its carbon tax--hardly a surprising move given that the country`s prime minister, Tony Abbott, once called evidence of climate change "absolute crap." Australia`s winemakers, however, don`t seem to agree with Abbott. Several leading wineries are investing in Tasmania, a cooler island state 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of continental Australia. Wine production there is now growing nearly 10% a year, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, while production...
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On climate change, Democrats appeal GOP fiscal conservatism
2014-08-01 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: With near unanimous Republican opposition to any action on climate change, a new memo by Washington Sen. Patty Murray reveals one way Democrats could change conservative minds: appeal to their wallets. This is not just an environmental issue, the Democratic senator and budget committee chairman argues in the memo, obtained by msnbc after it was sent to the Senate`s Democratic caucus. Climate change will also have serious ramifications for our economy and the federal budget, and failure to confront...
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