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Climate Change Is Making Cold Snaps More Rare, On Average
2014-06-16 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MotherBoard: Last winter's succession of cold snaps across the United States led some scientists to postulate that periods of brutal cold might actually be a global warming-related phenomenon, and will likely increase in frequency as climate change progresses. The idea, essentially, is that warm water is becoming more and more exposed to Arctic air as ice coverage diminishes, leading to a convection effect as warming air circulates with typically cold polar air, and the pushing of that cold Arctic air toward...
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Australia Sees Obama Climate Change Plan as All Talk, No Action
2014-06-15 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australias chief trade-deals negotiator has labeled the bid by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. power-plant emissions as lacking substance. Theres no action associated with it, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said in a Sky News interview from Houston, Texas, where he was accompanying Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbott, who is seeking to dismantle Australias carbon-price mechanism before it hosts Group of 20 leaders in November, isnt supporting Obamas bid to pressure India, China...
Obama lambastes climate change deniers as radical fringe' in California speech
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: President Obama on Saturday tore into those in Congress and the media who deny climate change, calling them a radical fringe that threatens the future by shutting down debate even among those who might agree with the warnings. "Today's Congress is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence. They'll tell you climate change is a hoax, or a fad. One says the world might actually be cooling," he said in a commencement address to 8,000 graduates of the University...
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Study urges sustainable corn production, warns climate change danger
2014-06-15 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Star: Corn farmers could see growing pressure from the companies that buy their golden kernels to adopt sustainable practices, according to a new report that warns of price swings, risk of groundwater depletion and nitrogen runoff contributing to the Gulf of Mexicos dead zone. U.S. farmers produced almost 14 billion bushels of corn in 2013 worth $67 billion. The annual harvest is essential to a wide variety of industries and products from sweeteners and plastics to meat and ethanol. But there are threats...
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Obama rolls out climate change challenge
2014-06-14 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama laid out a billion-dollar climate change challenge on Saturday, urging the nation to help combat the effects of natural disasters. Can you imagine a more worthy goal, a more worthy legacy, than protecting the world we leave to our children, the president said as he delivered the commencement address at the University of California, Irvine. "U.S. action is critical on climate change, as the world is watching and will follow the U.S.s lead, he said. This is a fight America must...
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