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Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions
2014-02-05 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TG Daily: New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century. According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40 billion per year today to up to $100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken. The study, led by the Berlin-based think-tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving...
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Climate change means more wildfires, & that means lots more air pollution
2014-02-04 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Wildfires not only jeopardize lives and property. They also cause air pollution from planet-warming carbon dioxide to health-endangering soot and nitrogen oxides. This pollution can trigger hospital visits. It can also hamper agricultural output, and damage forests and other ecosystems. This will be a particular problem in California, according to new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Scientists analyzed future climate and population scenarios for the state...
Protecting farms or front rooms? The impossible dilemma that climate change forces upon us
2014-02-04 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Statesman: At last, someone has said it. Chris Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, wrote in the Telegraph of the impossible dilemma facing Britain as climate change leads to ever-worsening flooding: "...This involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland? Flood defences cost money; and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods -- in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia? There's no bottomless...
Trusting the President on Climate Change and Public Lands
2014-02-03 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The faithful have much to celebrate in the president's State of the Union address. It reveals a new embrace of St. Francis' message about caring for God's creation, and his people. Cynics may say President Obama is brushing up in advance of his March meeting with His Holiness, Pope Francis, in Rome; I have faith in the president's commitment to using his executive authority to protect "our air, our water, our communities." But the jury is still out, so to speak, as to what he will accomplish....
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Michael Bloomberg confirmed UN climate change envoy
2014-02-03 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Michael Bloomberg has been appointed as the United Nations Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change in an attempt to help galvanise international action to cut emissions ahead of a series of crucial climate summits over the next two years. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed on Friday that the former Mayor of New York will now play a key role in promoting green city policies ahead of his next major climate change summit in New York. The meeting is intended to try and unlock some of the...
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