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What If Climate Change Triggers Cooperation, Not Conflict?
2014-07-18 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "Climate change increases the likelihood of war and terrorism," President Obama said earlier this summer. The Pentagon and a distinguished committee of retired generals and admirals both produced reports earlier this year highlighting the accelerating risks of climate change to US national security. A recent Showtime series on climate change had Tom Friedman linking climate change to political instability in the Middle East. But what is the basis of these claims? Do we have good evidence to support...
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Obama: Climate change a direct threat to US cities
2014-07-16 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Harsher storms, worsening flooding and rising seas threaten the public's safety and health across the country, President Barack Obama warned Wednesday as he urged local communities to prepare for the effects of climate change. Joined by top federal officials and local, state and tribal leaders at the White House, Obama said communities experiencing negative effects firsthand know that climate change is already upon us. He said boosting the nation's resilience and fighting climate change shouldn't...
Active planning needed to tackle climate change impact on Indian agriculture
2014-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: With climate change casting a shadow on the behaviour of monsoon, the country should put in place pro-active plans to meet any contingency and maximise benefits of a good rainfall to soften the blow of any deficit, eminent agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan has said. "El Nino is at the moment unpredictable...both La Nina and El Nino...one enhances the rainfall, the other makes it less. On climate change, meteorologists are not able to forecast very accurately. They can say approximately. That's...
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Military Bases Face Hurdle Climate Change Adaptation
2014-07-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Department of Defense has 7,600 military installations across all 50 states and 40 foreign countries. They perform diverse functions, but they have one thing in common: climate change could cost them big in the coming decades unless adaptation measures are taken soon. The military has already taken some action. Planning for climate change impacts is being folded into base Master Plans around the world. And renewable energy projects have popped up on a few installations, reducing greenhouse...
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Climate change signals the end of Australian shiraz as we know it
2014-07-13 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Young Australian vintner Nick Glaetzer's winemaking-steeped family thought he was crazy when he abandoned the Barossa Valley - the hot, dry region that is home to the country's world-famous big, brassy shiraz. Trampling over the family's century-old grape-growing roots on the Australian mainland, Glaetzer headed south to the island state of Tasmania to strike out on his own and prove to the naysayers there was a successful future in cooler climate wines. Just five years later, Glaetzer made...
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