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Deforestation could intensify climate change in Congo Basin by half
2014-04-15 09:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: By 2050, deforestation could cause temperatures in the Congo Basin to increase by 0.7 °C. The increase would intensify warming caused by greenhouse gases by half, according to a study by researchers at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Explosive population growth and inefficient agricultural practices are causing large-scale destruction of tropical rainforests in Central Africa. A team of researchers from the University of Leuven examined how these practices will affect longer-term temperatures...
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Congressman Denies Manmade Climate Change, Calls It An Agenda-Driven Science
2014-04-15 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) readily admits hes not smart enough to determine the roots of climate change. He is, however, able to rule out one possible cause: humans. The freshman congressmans remarks came in an interview with ThinkProgress Monday following a town hall meeting. Asked about the spate of extreme weather, including weeks of punishing drought, that has gripped parts of Florida in recent years, Yoho dismissed the idea that it could be a symptom of manmade climate change. I think its...
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Averting Disastrous Climate Change Could Depend Unproven Technologies
2014-04-15 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MIT Technology Review: Carbon conundrum: One way to decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would be to reverse the kind of deforestation shown here in Victoria, Australia. A U.N. climate report released on Sunday concludes that there may still be time to limit global warming to an increase of two degrees Celsius or less, which could help the world avoid the worst effects of climate change. But doing so will depend on making extraordinary changes to energy infrastructure at a much faster pace than is happening...
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Canadian economy will lose billions climate change: report
2014-04-14 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: A new report on the financial implications of climate change notes that while natural catastrophes are estimated to cost Canadians $21-$43 billion per year by 2050, popular economic measures like GDP fail to capture the escalation, discouraging preventative investment. The TD report follows a recent and alarming warning by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that governments are ill-prepared for a warming world. If action is not immediately taken, the UN report projected...
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New study 99.9% certain climate change is not natural phenomenon
2014-04-14 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: What are the odds that climate change is the work of natural processes, rather than human activity? As small as one in a thousand, according to a new scientific study based on empirical evidence. Rather than using advanced climate modeling techniques to look into the future, physics professor Shaun Lovejoy, of McGill University in Quebec, used historical and more tangible data to look into the past to question whether manmade emissions are the cause of global warming, "This study will be...
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