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Climate change study finds Australia suffers more than most G20 countries
2013-09-30 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's exposure to climate change has worsened more rapidly than in any other major economy in the past two years, with stresses on water supplies increasing and the cost of natural disasters running second only to China, a report has found. The study, compiled by HSBC, found that temperatures in Australia had risen faster than in any other G20 country over the past two years up by 0.39C to 18.9C on a decade average basis. Deterioration in water resources is also a major issue, with Australia,...
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IPCC Scientist: Climate change will hit Europe's competitiveness
2013-09-30 08:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: One of the lead authors of a key UN climate report launched on Friday (27 September) has told EurActiv that Europes business competitiveness would be badly hit by global warming of the sort most scientists now believe is likely to arise this century. If you have change which is that large anywhere, and youve built infrastructure to cope with todays climate, there will inevitably be implications of adaptation and mitigation, said Peter Thorne, the lead author on attribution and observation for...
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UN Climate Change Report: Governments Should Act Now
2013-09-30 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met this week to discuss the latest on climate change and issued a report, adding that it should serve as a "wake-up call" to governments and society about the role of humans play in increasing global warming. Over 800 authors from 39 countries contributed to the working group's 2,500-page assessment, which draws on millions of observations and numerical data from climate model simulations. In its first report for six years, the Intergovernmental...
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United Kingdom: Failing to lead on climate change will damage economy and environment, Greens tell Osborne
2013-09-29 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express: GEORGE Osborne's refusal to lead from the front in the fight against climate change is damaging the economy as well as the environment, according to the Green Party. The Chancellor has spoken out in favour of keeping carbon in the power sector and suggested Britain should not price itself out of international energy markets by placing too heavy an environmental burden on suppliers. His comments come as the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
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Climate Change Insurance: Scientists Call on President Obama to Protect Public Forests
2013-09-28 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Scientists specializing in forest ecosystems and climate change called on President Obama today to protect public forests from logging and development in efforts to forestall global warming and compliment the presidents recent proposal for tighter restrictions on coal-fired power plants. New forest inventories show that the nation's forests absorb nearly one-quarter of our greenhouse gas pollutants if left undisturbed. In contrast, logging releases most of the carbon stored as carbon dioxide,...
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