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Climate Change Could Cost the US Trillions
2013-08-27 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Fears of climate change seems to rise and fall with natural disasters. The East Coast has been fortunate to avoid a hurricane so far this season but out West wildfires have been destroying homes, businesses and forests. More than 200 square miles are now burning in Yosemite National Park threatening groves of giant sequoias as well as a reservoir that supplies water and power to San Francisco. Thirty-six large fires are raging in eight western states, from Wyoming to Washington State, plus Texas...
EPA chief warns against climate change on visit to Alaska glacier
2013-08-27 02:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: As she marveled at the site of a shrinking Alaska glacier, the newly installed leader of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the president told her that fighting climate change should be her primary focus. "The president's main priority for me was to recognize when I was coming in here that this is going to be a significant challenge and one in which the administration was going to begin to tackle," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. While the Portage Glacier has been in...
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EPA chief McCarthy visits Alaska, emphasizes climate change
2013-08-26 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency marveled at a shrinking Alaska glacier Monday and said the president's top emphasis to her is fighting climate change. "The president's main priority for me was to recognize when I was coming in here that this is going to be a significant challenge and one in which the administration was going to begin to tackle," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The National Climate Assessment says that global warming caused by human activity is causing...
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GOP Rep Todd Rokita: Connecting Climate Change To Humans Is 'Arrogant'
2013-08-26 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) said Friday that he does not believe humans are responsible for climate change, according to The Purdue Exponent. I think its arrogant that we think as people that we can somehow change the climate of the whole earth when science is telling us that theres a cycle to all this, Rokita said in an interview with the college paper after a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Ind. And that cycle was occurring before the industrial revolution and I suspect will occur way into...
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Climate Change Warning: 20 Cities With The Most To Lose From Rising Seas
2013-08-26 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Coastal cities around the world face a two-pronged problem: On one hand, there's a march of migration toward the coasts as people increasingly leave rural areas and move into urban areas, in search of better jobs and education. On the other, global sea levels are steadily rising, even as the construction of big buildings and the extraction of groundwater puts pressure on the land, a phenomenon called subsidence that's being viewed with increasing alarm in places from Louisiana to Indonesia. And...
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