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Canada: Wildrose Leader now believes in climate change as party set to shift policies
2013-10-26 02:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: On Friday, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith also changed her tone on the issue. She told reporters covering her party's annual general meeting: "I accept that climate change is a reality, as do our members. I accept that there's a human influence on it." During the 2012 campaign, the Leader said that the science on climate change isn't settled. Earlier this week, Ms. Smith said the science didn't matter but that market access for Alberta's crude and trade with other concerned countries and jurisdictions...
Toxic Algal Blooms Connected to Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
2013-10-25 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Nutrient enrichment and climate change are posing yet another concern of growing importance--an apparent increase in the toxicity of some algal blooms in freshwater lakes and estuaries around the world, which threatens aquatic organisms, ecosystem health and human drinking water safety. As this nutrient enrichment, or eutrophication increases, so will the proportion of toxin-producing strains of cyanobacteria in harmful algal blooms, scientists said. Toxic microcystin bacteria float, along...
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Australia PM: Climate Change Not Causing Wildfires
2013-10-25 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season. "That is complete hogwash," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told News Corp. Australian newspapers in an interview published on Friday. "They are desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause," he said, referring to people who link the fires to global warming and who criticize his government's...
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Australia: Climate change linked to bushfire risk says Environment Department website
2013-10-25 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott's insistence that any link between climate change and bushfires is "complete hogwash' is contradicted by information published on the Department of Environment's own website, it has emerged. In an interview with News Corporation columnist Andrew Bolt, Abbott rubbished claims that climate change was influencing the New South Wales bushfires, adding that people who make such claims are "desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause'. Earlier this...
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Australia: Climate change raising fire risk
2013-10-25 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Climate change is increasing the probability of extreme bushfire conditions, a report by the nation's leading climate change advisory body has found. The landmark study by the Climate Council - the independent organisation established after the Abbott government abolished the Climate Commission in September - warns of increasing days of extreme fire danger in future across south-eastern Australia. Environment Minister Greg Hunt launching an environment app in Victoria. Photo: Angela Wylie ...
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