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Vilsack:Agriculture unfairly blamed climate change
2014-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today that agriculture tends to take the brunt of criticism about climate change, but the industry contributes only 9 percent of the greenhouse gases blamed for a warming planet. "Everyone assumes what's happening globally is happening nationally," said Vilsack, a keynote speaker at Drake University forum on climate change. "Clearly, there are challenges globally in terms of agriculture and its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. That's not necessarily...
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Experts Warn Wildlife Response Climate Change Is Likely Underestimated
2014-04-23 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Analyzing thousands of breeding bird surveys sent in by citizen scientists across the western United States and Canada over 35 years, wildlife researchers report that most of the 40 songbird species they studied shifted either northward or toward higher elevation in response to climate change, but did not necessarily do both. This means that most previous studies of potential climate change impacts on wildlife that looked only at one factor or the other have likely underestimated the effects of...
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Climate Change Affects State, But Legislative Answers Stalled
2014-04-23 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hartford Courant: Climate change has been blamed for raising the sea level and eroding the shoreline, but the issue is a political firestorm so divisive that most legislative efforts have stalled in Congress. U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both Democrats from Connecticut, have worked to pass legislation that would combat global warming that they say threatens the Nutmeg State. Blumenthal notes that scientifically substantiated climate change will adversely affect agriculture, infrastructure and...
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Planet Earth Is Trolling American Climate Change Activists
2014-04-23 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wire: New data indicates that last month was the world's fourth-warmest March in recorded history. But, apparently to troll American environmental activists, that warmth was obvious everywhere except the United States. This is how temperatures in each part of the globe compared in March, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Most of the Earth's surface area is red to some degree, indicating temperatures above the average temperature the world saw between 1981 and 2010. But...
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Climate change will have profound impacts on humankind: Obama
2014-04-22 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: Observing that climate change is altering the planet in ways that will have profound impacts on humankind, US President Barack Obama has urged Americans to protect environment for a healthy and sustainable future. "Today, we face a problem that threatens us all. The overwhelming judgement of science tells us that climate change is altering our planet in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind," Obama said in a proclamation issued on Monday. "Farmers must cope with increased...
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