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Missing logic of Australian prime minister's denial of climate change link to bush fires
2013-10-29 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: o wanders into a classroom full of five-year-olds, sits down, pulls out a packet of cigarettes and starts to smoke them, exhaling puffs of cancer-inducing haze that waft into the little kids' faces. "Please stop that," pleads one of the children. "My mummy says smoking gives you cancer." "Rubbish," replies the smoker. "People have been dying of cancer ever since humans have walked the Earth. How did the cavemen die of cancer before cigarettes were invented, eh?" Clearly, our cancer-stick...
America's growing inequality helped scuttle the global climate change initiative
2013-10-28 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The link between good economic policy and climate change mitigation is instigated by policies such as the triple-bottom line, carbon limitations, and pro-environmental legislation. However, economic inequality is a little explored piece of the successful fight against climate change. For climate change mitigation and good economic policy to work, economic growth must be broad-based. Indeed, the inability for the United States to make a coherent and progressive stance on climate change has effectively...
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The climate change era is upon us
2013-10-28 13:37:43| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: We have been given a sobering glimpse into the speed of our changing climate and the vulnerabilities of our world. It turns out we must focus greater attention to the tropics, where so much of humanity and wildlife live, and to our oceans. While policymakers posture, dither and deny, the unraveling has already begun. A sophisticated analysis, published in the premier scientific journal Nature by a team of young scientists at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, shows that impacts of climate change...
Climate change may make coastal flooding like Sandy's more frequent
2013-10-28 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: When Superstorm Sandy struck the New York and New Jersey area on Oct. 29, 2012, it caused more than $50 billion in damage, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Much of that cost came from coastal flooding that ravaged downtown Manhattan, Staten Island, parts of Brooklyn, and many New Jersey beach towns, among other areas. Dr. Radley Horton, a climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says three environmental...
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Climate change sets back forest preservation efforts in India
2013-10-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: In Uttarakhand, women take the lead role in reviving and maintaining civil forests under Van Panchayats even in the face of several obstacles Munni Adhikari, a resident of Dhaura Gram Sabha in Lamgara block of Uttarakhand`s Almora district, lives in an idyllic setting: green slopes covered with tall pine and oak trees, wild flowers in full bloom, neat little terrace farms... While this natural splendour can instantly captivate any visitor, there is a hard-hitting reality that comes with the territory....
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