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UN chief: Climate change can bring jobs and income
2014-05-09 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The United Nations top climate change official is calling on the political right to see global warming as a huge business opportunity. Speaking to The Independent, Christiana Figueres said it was critical for political parties across the ideological spectrum to put aside their differences and unite in the battle to prevent catastrophic climate change. Appealing to climate sceptics across the world, she stressed that tackling climate change properly now would not only help to avert the worst...
5 climate change warnings for the southwest
2014-05-09 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Global warming is already having widespread impact on everything from agriculture to urban health, according to a federal report released Tuesday, and the Southwest -- the hottest, driest region of the country -- faces unique challenges. The National Climate Assessment highlighted five ways climate change is already impacting the region, which the report defines as California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado: Reduced snowpack and streamflows Over the past 50 years, the Southwest...
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Study: Climate Change Affects Nutrition in Basic Foods, Strips Off Zinc, Iron And Protein
2014-05-09 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: Not only will climate change affect the temperaments of weather patterns, it elevates sea levels and hampers crop production, the rising levels of carbon dioxide are also bound to affect the nutritional value and content of basic foods. Researchers at Harvard University found the rising levels of CO2 are affecting human nutrition as it reduces the levels of very essential nutrients in very important food crops such as zinc, iron and protein. The world's most important food crops are rice, wheat...
Obama's talking climate change, but is anyone listening?
2014-05-08 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: President Barack Obama will seek to make the case Friday for the urgency of fighting climate change with a speech at a California Walmart, but hes faced with apathy among the public and hostility from congressional Republicans. Obama has launched a public relations campaign in the wake of Tuesdays release of the National Climate Assessment, in which federal scientists focused on individual regions of the country as they warned of rising sea levels, extreme storms, heat waves, droughts and other...
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Climate change vs. GOP: Our view
2014-05-08 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US Today: Not all that long ago, leading Republicans took strong positions on climate change. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, co-authored legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions. And former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee presented the fight against global warming as a religious cause. These days, it's difficult to find a Republican candidate willing to speak out in favor of doing something. Anyone who does so risks defeat in GOP primaries, where ardent climate change...
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