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Climate change pushes farmers in India to the tipping point in pictures
2013-05-21 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: British artist and designer Gerry Judah was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He returned to India with Christian Aid after more than 50 years to see how people are tackling the effects of global warming. A series of works inspired by his trip can be seen in Christian Aid's Tipping Point exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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Climate change threatens Gulf monarchies' survival
2013-05-21 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Qatar-based author Mari Luomi says the Persian Gulf monarchies will have to change to be sustainable in the era of climate change. But reaping the benefits of the fossil fuel economy has blinded most of them to that. DW: Why do you conclude that the Gulf monarchies have reached their limits of "natural sustainability." Mari Luomi: The growing imbalance between current natural resource consumption and preserving the environment for the future has reached a tipping point. The states are starting...
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Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster
2013-05-19 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that "urgent action at all levels [is] required now", cautioning the region against complacency in dealing with climate change. Noting that earlier models forecast that an atmosphere...
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Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research
2013-05-19 20:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account. That would still lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth, causing droughts, storms, floods and heatwaves and with...
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Climate Change vs Terrorism and the Costs of Inaction
2013-05-19 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: At the turn of this century drought set in in the American Southwest, which persists to this day. Without water, all living things cease to exist. Even as the Southwest and other parts of the planet are parched by a warming planet, other parts are saturated by moisture that originally was evaporated from overheating dry latitudes and the oceans. The resultant storms and flooding also extinguishes lives. September 11, 2001, four passenger airliners carrying 227 passengers and crew were...
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