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Climate Change Reporting Focuses on Disasters and Uncertainty, Study Finds
2013-09-18 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Nearly 80 percent of news articles about climate change either warn of current or future disaster scenarios related to global warming, or contain discussions about the uncertainty of climate science, an Oxford study of 350 news articles from 2007 to 2012 has found. Fewer than two percent of the articles from the media in six countries discussed opportunities to be gained from switching to a lower-carbon economy. Journalists were attracted to "gloom and doom" stories about climate-related disasters,...
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Indian States Share Climate Change Action Plans
2013-09-18 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Earlier this year, the World Bank warned warming global temperatures would pose a significant risk to India, causing extreme drought in some areas and extreme flooding in others. Indian officials this week are meeting with global industry leaders to exchange ideas on how to fight climate change and encourage sustainable development. Sudripta Roy, the chief secretary of Himachal Pradesh said he has not had to look too far to witness the effects of climate change. Roy has conducted aerial surveys...
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Climate change to have double impact - study
2013-09-18 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the world awaits the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest verdict on the state of the climate, new research out this year finds that climate change could have double the impact previously thought. The peer-reviewed study published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society argues that conventional conclusions on climate sensitivity - the extent to which global temperatures respond to greenhouse gas emissions - underestimate the role of some amplifying...
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Climate change inaction is like Aids denial, says scientist
2013-09-18 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Professor Nilay Shah, of Imperial College London, predicted that those who argue against a rapid cut in emissions would be judged similarly to those who had disputed the medical evidence on Aids in the past. Prof Shah was speaking as he launched a report advocating global spending of $2 trillion a year by 2050, or 1 per cent of GDP, to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels. He said: "There's an interesting parallel with South Africa in the 90s, where political capital was being...
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Did Climate Change Worsen the Colorado Floods?
2013-09-18 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Last Thursday, as torrential rains turned into floods that washed away homes, roads, and bridges in Boulder, Colorado, and the surrounding region, the local National Weather Service forecast office went ahead and said what we were all thinking. It put it like this: MAJOR FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING EVENT UNDERWAY AT THIS TIME WITH BIBLICAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS REPORTED IN MANY AREAS IN/NEAR THE FOOTHILLS. The word "biblical" certainly captures the almost preternatural scale of the Colorado floods,...
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