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Scientists underscore Obama's concerns about climate change and severe weather
2013-06-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E&E Publishing: Severe flooding in India and wildfires in Colorado provided a backdrop of recent examples of weather-related disaster yesterday, as scientists and policymakers discussed the science of severe weather events at the American Geophysical Union's annual science policy conference in Washington, D.C. The panel discussion led off with a straightforward yet disturbing fact: In 2012, the United States had the world's two costliest disasters, totaling more than $100 billion. One was Superstorm Sandy, and...
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How Obamas climate change speech supported fracking
2013-06-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: Pres. Obama covered a lot of ground Tuesday in his long-awaited speech on climate change. His proposals for fighting global warming without congressional help didnt go as far as many of his supporters might have liked. Frankly, they didnt go as far as programs California already has in place. But at this point, environmentalists will take whatever federal climate change action they can get. They certainly liked his comments on the Keystone XL pipeline. But the speech was also notable for...
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Costly climate change intervention
2013-06-27 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: On Tuesday, President Obama announced a series of executive actions aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, with hopes of mitigating climate changes. His "Climate Action Plan" is neither necessary nor effective, but it will be costly. By promoting limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants while increasing "green"-energy incentives, the president is trying to steer our energy choices away from the free-market course and toward the direction of his liking. This is a dangerous...
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Climate Change and the Colorado River: New Study Warns of "Megadroughts"
2013-06-26 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: With some 30 million people relying on it, the Colorado River is a crucial American artery that, researchers warn, could shrink by nearly half its current size by 2050. However, estimates regarding the river are varied, with the low end falling at just 6 percent. For this reason, researchers at the University of Washington, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies and NOAA banded together to investigate and explain the reason why these discrepancies exists and summarize...
Obama on climate change: There is no Congress
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Magazine: There is a very fortunate irony about President Obama's second term. He has to deal with a Congress barely capable of keeping the government's lights on, let alone crafting rational laws, and totally unable to handle any number of policy crises. Yet, on the single most urgent issue facing the country (and the world), climate change, Obama doesn't need Congress at all. The contrast between those two facts -- the awesome urgency of climate change, and Congress's inability to tackle even the simplest...
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