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Climate Change Puts Even Safe Species at Risk
2013-06-15 09:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network.: Climate change doesnt just threaten species that are already vulnerable it could have alarming consequences for a huge range of birds, corals and amphibians that no-one had considered in danger of extinction before, according to a new study. Wendy Foden of the International Union for the Conservation of Natures global species programme and colleagues examined the findings of 100 scientists over the last five years and looked for the biological and ecological characteristics that might make...
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Addressing air pollution and climate change with clean energy
2013-06-15 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: This weekend, for the third year in a row, Ill be traveling to Washington, D.C., to push Congress to enact meaningful legislation that will rein in climate change. Many people would view this as a fools errand, given the gridlock that exists in Washington right now, but Ive found a number of reasons to be hopeful. Besides, this is one problem where failure is not an option. While only one congressman from Utah, Rep. Jim Matheson, has publically affirmed that we need to address human-caused...
U.N. climate change conference in Bonn adjourns
2013-06-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Delegates to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, say they made progress toward reaching a new universal climate change agreement. "Over the past12 months, solid foundations have been laid under the process both toward the 2015 agreement and in raising pre-2020 ambition," Co-chairs Jayant Moreshver Mauskar and Harald Dovland said in a joint statement Friday. "As a result of the constructive and flexible engagement among governments, nations now have a clearer idea of how to move...
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Exxon's Rex Tillerson see climate change as risk managment problem
2013-06-15 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Plain Dealer: Climate change is a serious and complex problem that society may not be able to fix and will just have to deal with, the head of the world's largest oil company said Friday. "I view it as a risk management problem," Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, said in response to a question following his address to the City Club of Cleveland. It was the second time in 13 months that Tillerson articulated Exxon's new acceptance that climate change appears to be a reality. And it was the second time...
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Climate change impacting Tahoe clarity
2013-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: Climate change is helping warm Lake Tahoes cobalt blue waters, which could complicate efforts to maintain its famed clarity, said one of Americas most respected scientists and an expert on the Sierra lake. Over the last 30 years, Lake Tahoe has warmed about a 1 degree Fahrenheit, a result of the lake not releasing as much heat back into the atmosphere due to carbon dioxide blanketing, said renowned limnologist Charles Goldman. These are serious times, and this carbon dioxide question is...
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