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Climate change will make Colorado's millennial rainstorm a lot more common
2013-10-24 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The rainfall that caused massive flooding in Colorado last month was a once-in-a-millennium event, according to a recent study (pdf). And climate change is making those kinds of extreme weather events more common. The impressively named Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center, a division of the National Weather Service, has concluded with greater than 90% certainty that the rainfall was millennial in nature. Here`s the chart for one rain gauge in Boulder, Colorado, that was inundated over seven...
Climate change and coevolution: Scientists have done the math
2013-10-24 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Daily: When scientists attempt to understand how climate change might reshape our environment, they must grapple with the seemingly endless complexity of interacting systems. For those considering the likely fate of particular species, there is now a relatively simple rule of thumb to help calculate the likely effect of climate change where species interact. "A lot of the discussion about climate change focuses on the fate of individual, iconic species, but to evaluate the effects of future environmental...
Climate change threatens food security
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Vision: The unpredictable rain attributed to the changing climate is threatening food security and the economy, according to leading experts on Climate Change. According to Robert Ddamulira, the regional coordinator on energy at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), the observable climate trends in recent years demonstrate an increased unpredictability of when it would rain. "Farmers are losing a great deal of investments in seed planted at the wrong time,' he said, adding that this has also led to...
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Report: Investments in fight against global climate change fall short
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Spending on technology and strategies aimed at fighting climate change are well behind the globe's needs, according to a new study from Stanford University. The report, released Tuesday by the Climate Policy Initiative, says that financing flows have hit a peak at $359 billion per year, which falls significantly short of the most conservative estimated needs for investing in climate policies. In order to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, the report says, roughly $490 billion per year to $910...
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Australia: Informed discussion on climate change impacts can turn table on denialist prime minister
2013-10-24 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alex White: The Australian government is fast turning into an international embarrassment on climate change. The environment minister Greg Hunt revealed that he looked Australia's history of bushfires on Wikipedia and concluded that there was no link between the latest outbreaks and climate change. (More on Hunt's risible Wikipedia searches at The Guardian here.) Meanwhile, climate denying prime minister Tony Abbott has been criticised by Nobel laureate and former US vice president Al Gore over Mr Abbott's...
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