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Storm warning: Climate change to spawn more hurricanes
2013-07-08 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The world could see as many as 20 additional hurricanes and tropical storms each year by the end of the century because of climate change, says a study out today. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), written by top climate researcher Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On average, about 90 tropical cyclones form each year around the world, Emanuel says. ("Tropical cyclone" is an umbrella term that includes hurricanes,...
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Obama climate change initiatives: A decidedly mixed bag
2013-07-08 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama, not content to have added thousands of pages of regulation and red tape to the federal code in his first term, recently announced that Americas energy and industrial sectors need to be saddled with new regulations including limiting greenhouse gases from new and existing power plants. Other initiatives include new energy efficiency and renewable energy mandates and a continuation of the costly and inefficient renewable fuel standards. This couldnt have come at a worse time. America...
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Climate change will still not be taught in English primary schools
2013-07-08 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: After months of angst and debate over the omission of the term "climate change" from the draft version of the new geography curriculum for key stages 1-3, the Department for Education has today released the new wording. The two versions remain virtually word-for-word the same, except for this section of the key stage 3 "subject content". Under the head "human and physical geography", the draft wording (pdf), first published in March, said that pupils should be taught to: understand how human...
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Keystone XL Pipeline Cleaner And Cooler Than Texas Wind Farms In Terms Of Climate Change And Global Warming Say Friends Of Science
2013-07-08 04:21:02| pollutiononline News Articles
While the US limps through the recession, thousands of ‘shovel-ready’ jobs are on hold waiting forPresident Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline, a 36 inch oil pipeline that will carry product from Canada’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries
Growth plan forecasts climate change impacts
2013-07-08 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A Victorian Government report says Gippsland can expect an increase in extreme weather events over the next 30 years. Temperatures in Victoria are predicted increase by more than one degrees Celsius by 2030. By 2070, it could be more than four degrees warmer. That means less rain and snow in winter and overall, more flooding, coastal erosion, storm tide events and bushfire. The projections are detailed in the Victorian Government's draft Gippsland Regional Growth Plan, a document that...
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