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How Climate Change Warmed Syria Up for War
2013-09-05 06:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Most Americans' understanding of the root of the Syrian conflict boils down to something like this: Bashar al-Assad is a sociopathic maniac who'd rather mow down his own people than relinquish dictatorship. While that's undoubtedly part of the equation, there's obviously a lot more at play than that. And some of the blame, scholars argue, can be traced all the way to climate change. As was the case with many of the nations touched by the Arab Spring, a large swath of Syria's citizenry wasn't just...
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Experts: Climate change threats Minnesota's fisheries, from trout streams to big walleye lakes
2013-09-04 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climate change threatens Minnesota's prized fisheries from North Shore trout streams to popular walleye lakes such as Mille Lacs, experts said Wednesday as the National Wildlife Federation released a national study on the risks to freshwater fish in a warming world. "It is clear that climate change is creating new stresses on fish, whether brook trout in Appalachia, walleye in the Midwest, Apache trout in the arid Southwest, or salmon in the Pacific Northwest," the report said. And it's not...
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Whiplash: Climate change to make Sandy-like paths less likely, study says
2013-09-04 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: After Superstorm Sandy hit a road block in the atmosphere`s flow over the Atlantic and took a hard left crashing ashore in New Jersey, a rush of stories emerged speculating climate change may have played a role in the unlikely turn. Now a new study says, not so fast: climate change will make such a move less common, not more. "[W]e demonstrate that climate models consistently project a decrease in the frequency and persistence of the westward flow that led to Sandy`s unprecedented track, implying...
Climate change warning from Pacific leaders
2013-09-04 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3News: Pacific leaders are warning western governments of further problems if climate change isn't dealt with. The Pacific Islands Forum is now underway in the Marshall Islands, where climate change is having a direct impact. Sea levels are rising around the islands, and locals use anything they can, including blocks of concrete, to build seawalls to protect the land. The estimate is that within 285 years entire atolls will be covered in salt water. Regional leaders warn this could cause a future flood...
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Climate change causes $1.1 billion in losses in Costa Rica, study finds
2013-09-03 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Puntarenas, on Costa Ricas central Pacific, is the province most affected by climate change, with damages in the six-year period reaching $164.5 million. Alberto Font A new report claims that climate change has caused $1.13 billion in damages in Costa Rica from 2005-2011 just under 17 percent of that in the agricultural sector. A recent study released by Costa Rican officials shows that the country has accumulated approximately $1.13 billion in losses due to climate change from 2005 to 2011,...
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