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Climate Change Threatens Food Security in Nigeria, Others
2013-10-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
This Day: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has warned of an impending threat to food security in Nigeria and 10 other nations in the West African region. According to the institute, crisis would only be averted if deliberate efforts are made by both governments and the private sector to include climate change adaptation to food security investment in the region. The IFPRI survey that led to this caution used sophisticated modeling and available data to develop future scenarios...
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Ex-congressman Lincoln Davis says climate change is threat to farms
2013-10-15 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tennessean: Former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis and area farmers warned Monday that climate change is a danger to agriculture and the economy. Davis, a self-described conservative Democrat, made his remarks at Batey Farms in Rutherford County before Gov. Bill Haslams scheduled appearance at the Tennessee Agriculture Leadership Forum at noon today in Murfreesboros Embassy Suites. Davis said climate change is a natural process that has been accelerated greatly by humans. I think its really occurring, Davis...
Climate change: Europe needs local and regional strategies
2013-10-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report confirmed beyond doubt that climate change is happening and that human activity accounts for at least half of global warming. The good news to be drawn from this if there is any hope to be found is that, with the necessary political will, we humans can stop climate change getting worse. It will be the task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Warsaw next month to pave the way for a new international...
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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear climate change regulation cases
2013-10-15 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reutera: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a challenge to part of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at tackling climate change, accepting its biggest environmental case in six years. The court said it would not review the underlying determination that greenhouse gases are a public health concern or a separate regulation that limits greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The single question the court will consider is whether the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Climate change is here and now: Our view
2013-10-15 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: All too often, global warming is discussed as something that will affect future generations of people, penguins and polar bears. That it will. But a mounting body of evidence demonstrates that climate change is neither distant nor theoretical. It is here and now: The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the internationally accepted authority on the subject, concludes that the climate system has warmed dramatically since the 1950s, and that scientists are 95% to...
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