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Australia: Scientists say climate change link to bushfires demands action
2013-10-21 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With claims that current climate policies would lead to more bushfires, Deputy Greens Leader Adam Bandt was accused of politicising the a natural disaster, but scientists say the link between global warming and fires is established and demands action. Transcript ANNABEL CRABB, PRESENTER: Behind the fire fronts, a secondary battle is underway, a political dispute about the links between climate change, extreme weather and bushfires. Deputy Greens Leader Adam Bandt started it with a tweet...
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IPCC Climate Change Report Reinforces The Link Between Global Warming And The Human Equation
2013-10-21 04:28:28| pollutiononline Home Page
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report strongly reinforcing the link between humans and global warming
Scientists say climate change is challenging Iowa agriculture
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Iowa: More than 150 scientists from 36 colleges and universities in Iowa are jointly issuing a call for action against global warming. The director of the Climate Science Program at Iowa State, Gene Takle, is one of the lead authors of the group`s Iowa Climate Statement for 2013. "The last couple of years have underscored the fact that we are very vulnerable to weather conditions and weather extremes in Iowa," Takle says. Both years were marked by heavy spring rains followed by droughts that damaged...
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Climate change: Here & now at national parks
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Lansing State Journal: At Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, one of the oldest national parks in the U.S., operations for more than a century were built upon a predictable weather pattern. Heavy snows would begin to fall in autumn. The snow would grow thicker through winter until it packed 25 feet deep. In the spring, rain would replace the snow, and the snow pack would act like a giant sponge, soaking up all the water until the warm summer months would melt them all and fuel the rivers below. But by the...
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Climate change threatens Nepali farmers' livelihood and nation's food security
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Churamani Neupane thought he was going through a normal monsoon when heavy rain arrived in June. But three days later, he found "normal" no longer applied. "My rice paddies had never been flooded before, but this time, they submerged into 2-meter-deep water," the 34-year-old farmer recalled of his first visit after the rain. "I was so stressed when I saw it, because much of my family's income relies on the rice sales." The flood finally faded away one week later, but the problem it caused didn't....
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