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CDC Looks Toward Climate Change in Brain-Eating Amoeba Cases
2013-09-26 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are investigating whether climate change could allow for the presence of the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria Fowleri, in locations it has not previously threatened. Naegleria Fowleri survives in warm, fresh water and infects people when contaminated water enters the nose and travels to the brain, resulting in the deadly infection known as primary amebic meningoencephaltis, or PAM. The infection was confirmed in four children in the U.S. in the...
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How climate change could make mercury pollution worse
2013-09-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Mercury pollution and climate change are both unintended consequences of burning fossil fuels for centuries. A new study finds another link between the two problems: Climate change has the potential to make mercury pollution worse. Mercury is a particularly persistent pollutant, and sticks around in surface waters and the air for centuries, said Dave Krabbenhoft, a researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey in Middleton, Wis. As a volatile metal, it vaporizes at relatively low temperatures, and...
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UN climate change panel to release summary of latest science Friday
2013-09-26 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Think of it as a giant barometer for climate science. With a new groundbreaking study on climate change seemingly coming out every other week, it can be hard to keep up with the latest findings. Fortunately, every five to six years, the United Nations sums it up in a comprehensive report. That's what's going on this week in the Swedish capital Stockholm, where the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set for release on Friday. The document will bring together...
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Marshall Islands: Climate Change Has Reached Our Shores
2013-09-25 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: AS the world barrels toward a climate crisis of its own making, my country stands at the precipice. In the Marshall Islands, like elsewhere in the Pacific, climate change is no longer a distant threat, nor at the doorstep. Climate change is here. No one can seriously contest that humanitys carbon-polluting ways are the main cause of global warming, and that the consequences are set to intensify. As Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier this month to an audience in the Marshall Islands, The...
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The climate change consensus: a call for care in interpretation
2013-09-25 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A landmark report slated for release Friday is likely to announce the world`s leading climate scientists are 95 percent certain that recent global warming is largely due to human activities. But what the report, from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will not say is that scientists are 95 percent certain about the severity of the consequences. This is an important distinction, but one that frequently gets blurred. For example, in an otherwise well-constructed piece...
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