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Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles
2013-09-08 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous. Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea - isolated from the atmosphere for centuries. Findings published today in the journal Nature Climate Change reveal that water temperature has a direct impact on maintaining the...
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Pacific climate change pact wins US support
2013-09-08 08:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A new Pacific regional pact calling for aggressive action to combat climate change has achieved a "major accomplishment" by gaining US support, officials said Sunday. The Majuro Declaration, endorsed by the 15-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) at their summit last week, contains specific pledges on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The PIF nations, some of which are barely a metre (three feet) above sea level and risk being swamped by rising waters, have since received wide support led by...
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Climate change will turn Greenland green
2013-09-08 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: History teachers often point out the humor in Greenlands name. That northerly land, after all, is anything but green. According to the Icelandic Sagas, Eric the Redexiled from Iceland for the crime of murderstumbled upon Greenlands glacial shores in the late 10th century. Though Coldland or Snowyland would have been more apt, he dubbed the place Grnland in the hopes of luring settlers to the remote outpost with the promise of bountiful forests and fields. Eric the Reds false advertising,...
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NASA scientists link climate change with increase in wildfires
2013-09-08 03:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The devastating wildfire in Southern California that destroyed 26 homes and threatened hundreds of others in the San Jacinto Mountains before it was mostly contained on Sunday has prompted some scientists to examine whether climate change has impacted on the onset and severity of wildfire season. The so-called Silver Fire is expected to be fully contained by Monday, according to California officials. But on Friday, as the fire moved toward Palm Springs and threatened some 500 homes, NASA hosted...
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Climate change played a role in half of 2012's extreme weather events study
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: New research released yesterday links human-caused climate change to six of 12 extreme weather events from 2012, including summer heat waves in the United States and storm surges from Superstorm Sandy. Teams of scientists from around the world examined the causes behind extreme weather events on five continents and in the Arctic. Their results were published as a special report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. One of the stronger linkages between global warming and severe...
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