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New method to measure climate change: radio waves
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science World Report: Climate change is happening around the world and scientists are continually updating the ways they measure its influence. Now, researchers have discovered another way to measure climate change. They've found that radio waves reflected back to Earth from the ionosphere offer valuable news on our shifting environment. The ionosphere is one of the regions of the upper atmosphere. It plays a crucial role in global communications. Because it's ionized by solar radiation, the electricity-rich region...
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Climate change may make civil wars much more common
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: As the mercury rises, so too will a tide of human violence, according to a new analysis that puts a fresh spin on the phrase "dangerous climate change". Indeed, if societies respond to future warming in the same way as they have responded to historical surges in temperature, the frequency of civil wars could increase by more than 50 per cent by the middle of the century. But this provocative attempt to quantify the influence of climate on human conflict is itself setting off clashes among researchers...
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Climate change and conflict
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: A new study in the journal Science quantifies a direct link between higher temperatures and increased conflict ranging from domestic violence to civil war. One of the lead researchers, Edward Miguel from UC Berkeley, tells host Steve Curwood that as world wide temperatures increase with climate disruption he expects to see more strife. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. As global temperatures rise, so do the levels...
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US Republican enviro-vets: 'Climate change is real. DEAL WITH IT'
2013-08-03 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Register: A quartet of former US Environmental Protection Agency administrators have come out in favor of immediate action on anthropogenic climate change and all four worked in conservative Republican administrations. "We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally," the four wrote in an op-ed piece, "A Republican Case for Climate Action", published in...
How climate change can make us hot under the collar
2013-08-02 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When I lived in Nigeria, it was always said that there was more fighting in the weeks before the rains broke. Equally, in Pakistan and India, there is lots of anecdotal evidence to suggest there is more crime when it is extremely hot. It is the same in China and the US, where riots invariably take place in the summer, and there is a well-known increase in murders between the months of July and September. Warmer than usual weather appears to mean more people on the streets, more conflict between...
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