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Climate Change to Determine Economic Growth
2013-06-20 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Monetary Board of Sri Lanka's Central Bank, tasked with keeping the island's economy on an even keel, does not only keep tabs on exchange rates, gold prices and inflation - it also has an eye on a less obvious indicator of economic stability: water levels in the country's main reservoirs. Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal last week told a group of journalists in the capital, Colombo, that the Board pays as close attention to water as it does to oil prices. "An extreme wet monsoon...
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New FEMA Study: Climate Change Will Greatly Increase Flood Risk, Debt
2013-06-20 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in a study finally released last week after five years in the making, predicted that areas at risk of flooding in the United States would increase 45 percent by 2100, largely because of climate change. That prediction is dire news, not just for residents of flood zones, but for all taxpayers, who fund FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). With flood risk on the rise, the program will have to insure 80 percent more properties than it does today, and...
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Americans' Climate Change Opinions Shift After Cold Winter, Survey Shows
2013-06-20 10:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: After an especially cold winter across much of the United States, the American public was slightly less convinced that the planet is heating up, a new survey shows. A majority of Americans, or 63 percent, still believe there is solid evidence that global warming is real, according to the latest poll from the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE). That number is down, however, from 67 percent who said the same in the fall. "The fairly cold winter and slow arriving spring weather this...
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Time to stop arguing about climate change, World Bank says
2013-06-20 07:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday. Jim Yong Kim said there was 97 to 98 percent agreement among scientists that global warming was real and caused by human activity. "If you disagree with the science of human-caused climate change you are not disagreeing that there is anthropogenic climate change. What you are disagreeing with is science...
Climate change measuring instruments are on life support
2013-06-20 02:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientists have adopted basic rules of management, such as: "You can't manage what you can't measure." This is a truism in climate science. In order to understand where our climate is headed, we need to know where it has been in the past, and where it is now. Understanding the state of the climate is an immense engineering challenge. Think of trying to measure the energy of the oceans, or the chemistry of the Earth's waters. How about temperatures or chemistry of the atmosphere? What about the...
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