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The Politics of Climate Change This Summer Will Be Worse Than Obamacares
2014-05-20 07:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NYMag: On May 6, a team of more than 300 climate scientists and experts released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, which reported, Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. The Obama administration had intended the Climate Assessment to underscore the urgency of new regulations to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, which it will unveil next month. But the point was underscored far more dramatically, and by events the...
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Coal, climate change collide as customers query Aussie banks' green credentials
2014-05-20 03:16:13| Automakers - Topix.net
After 35 years of banking with big Australian banks like National Australia Bank , Paula and Peter Samson closed their accounts to protest the lenders' exposure to the polluting fossil fuel industry.
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Republicans Divided Over Climate Change As Antarctica Rises And Melts
2014-05-18 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Antarctic ice can be up to 2.6 miles thick, yet researchers say that the continent of Antarctica is rising unusually fast due to climate change. Researchers told Live Science on Friday that a combination of climate change and hot rock miles underneath the earths surface flowing much faster than expected has caused the continent to rise in a similar fashion to mattresses decompressing after people get off of them. Grace Nield, a geophysicist at Newcastle University in England, told Live Science...
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Climate Change Will Force Us Abandon Coastal Cities. We Better Start Preparing Right Now
2014-05-18 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the worlds coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned. Abandoned. While actual abandonment would not happen for many years (were talking centuries), the studies warned that our actions now are irrevocable...
Climate Change May Be Killing All Our Fancy Coffee
2014-05-18 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wire: The American government is stepping in to help farmers in Central America battle a disease that is devastating coffee crops in several important coffee-producing countries. The disease is a fungus known as "coffee rust," it sounds absolutely terrifying, and it could be enabled by climate change. What does it do? Attacks. The roya fungus is taking a toll in places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, and Honduras. In Guatemala, a national emergency has been declared. First, parts...
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