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Climate Change In NYC: Hot Summers Could Cause Over 3,000 Deaths A Year By 2080
2016-06-23 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Medical Daily: New York City summers bring to mind images of children running through open fire hydrants, free concerts in the park, and a feeling of carefreeness not associated with any other season. If the results of new research are correct, New York City summers could conjure darker images as the result of worsening climate change.. Its well-known that high temperatures can overheat the body and lead to heat exhaust or even heat stroke. Researchers from Columbia University wanted to see what effect rising...
Political leaders take action climate change prevent devastation to regional economies
2016-06-23 04:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Political leaders urged to take action on climate change and prevent devastation to regional economies A dry sheep farm in Tasmania in 2011. A signatory to an open letter calling for climate change action says regional Australia is going to bear the brunt of its damaging effects. More than 20 prominent Australian scientists, community and business leaders signed an open letter in The Age newspaper on Thursday to declare a climate emergency. The letter was addressed to those appointed to...
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Climate change could have an even worse impact on Boston than previously expected
2016-06-23 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The consequences of climate change on Boston are expected to be far more calamitous than previous studies have suggested, a new report commissioned by the city says. In the worst case scenarios, sea levels could rise more than 10 feet by the end of the century -- nearly twice what was previously predicted -- plunging about 30 percent of Boston under water. Temperatures in 2070 could exceed 90 degrees for 90 days a year, compared with an average of 11 days now. And changes in precipitation could...
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94 million-year-old climate change event holds clues for future
2016-06-23 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A major climate event millions of years ago that caused substantial change to the ocean's ecological systems may hold clues as to how the Earth will respond to future climate change, a Florida State University researcher said. In a new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Assistant Professor of Geology Jeremy Owens explains that parts of the ocean became inhospitable for some organisms as the Earth's climate warmed 94 million years ago. As the Earth warmed, several natural elements...
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Koch Brothers Continue to Fund Climate Change Denial Machine, Spend $21M to Defend Exxon
2016-06-22 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Kochs have spent more than $88 million in traceable funding to groups attacking climate change science, policy and regulation. Of that total, $21 million went to groups that recently bought a full page New York Times advertisement defending ExxonMobil from government investigations into its systematic misrepresentation of climate science. If youre an executive at a big oil company watching as ExxonMobil is finally exposed for studying climate change, covering up the science and spreading misinformation,...
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