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Climate change impact can be averted; nations need to act fast: IPCC
2014-04-19 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Unseasonal rains, freak snowstorms and droughts because of global warming may be becoming the new normal but now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its recent report has offered a glimmer of hope. The severe impacts of climate change can be avoided or minimised provided countries act collectively and quickly. Besides, it will not cost the earth to save the earth. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions would have minimal impact on growth0.06 per cent of GDP. However, there is a caveat,...
Change farming for climate: US expert
2014-04-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Last night, Professor Molly Jahn from the University of Wisconsin delivered the RD Watt lecture at the University of Sydney saying innovation in agricultural and food systems is imperative for society's survival and development. Professor Jahn has worked extensively in developing countries to link crop breeding with improved human nutrition and welfare. She says that lately the US projects she is involved in illustrate the big challenges to farmers due to a rapidly changing climate. "We...
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Options for limiting climate change are narrowing
2014-04-18 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a gathering of scientists who advise governments, describes itself as policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral. Its latest report, the third in six months, ignores that fine distinction. Pressure from governments forced it to strip out of its deliberations a table showing the link between greenhouse gases and national income, presumably because this made clear that middle-income countries such as China are the biggest contributors to new emissions....
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Thanks in part to climate change, American West will see more fiery summers
2014-04-18 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Wildfires are getting bigger and more frequent in the American West. It`s not your imagination. And the summers ahead will bring more of them, even larger than the ones that came before. That`s the conclusion of a new study for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) prepared by a team of researchers led by Philip Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The authors used satellite data to measure areas of more than 1,000 acres burned by large fires from Nebraska to...
Climate change gets star treatment
2014-04-17 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: To engage the public, Years of Living Dangerously and Sand Wars take different approaches, one is a Hollywood behemoth, the other is shrewd and assailing In the first episode of Years of Living Dangerously, a lavish nine-part US documentary series about the role humans play in climate change, actor Don Cheadle heads for drought-stricken Texas. He is on a mission to find out why the Bible Belt rejects the idea that we are failing as stewards of the planet. How could an argument so simple, so...
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