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Climate change could wipe out wildlife and is major risk to UK forests
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change poses a major risk to forests all over the world, threatening widespread tree deaths that could wipe out wildlife, exacerbate global warming and hurt the economy, a major new UN report will warn today. According to a leaked final draft of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, tree mortality and associated forest dieback will become apparent in many regions sooner than previously anticipated. Forest dieback is a major environmental risk with potentially...
United Kingdom: Climate change threat to native wildlife
2014-03-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: GLOBAL warming could sound the death knell for some of Scotland`s wildlife and unique habitats, according to a major international report to be released tomorrow. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will present the strongest evidence yet of the drastic negative effects of human activity on the worlds oceans and the threat to life on Earth. It will warn that the impact of oxygen-starved seas, coastal erosion, changing seasons and the spread of invasive alien...
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The right's new climate change lie: It's all the scientists' fault
2014-03-29 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Some scholars blame scientists at least in part for why we are not motivated to act on climate change. They claim that many scientists have discredited themselves by politicizing science. On this view the politicization of science by some climate scientists has compromised the credibility of the entire enterprise. John Lanchester writes: [T]he scientists...are...trying to sell us something. And we the public might be undereducated, but we know not to trust entirely someone who is trying to sell...
Climate change influences landowner's tree choices
2014-03-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Perss: Cardinals tuck into the dark wall of Norway spruce, finding shelter in the tall trees. Prickly, round seed balls dangle from a slender sycamore like tiny Christmas ornaments. A dawn redwood, native to China and found in fossil records dating back about 150 million years, drops flat rust-colored needles on the deep March snow. When Steve and Jeanne Dirksen moved onto 40 acres outside Clearwater in the early 1970s, the yard was a cornfield and the 20-acre woods held a lot of oaks. "There were two...
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Climate change report: The good and bad news for Canada
2014-03-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sends out another warning of the dramatic changes taking place in the global environment, but there are parts of Canada that stand to gain from a warmer world. This report (which will be officially released on Sunday evening) was prepared by climate scientists from 100 countries, who are gathered in Japan this week. It outlines the consequences of the unprecedented rate of change in the Earth's climate and the implications...
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