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'Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change' by Andrew Guzman
2013-05-04 01:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: OVERHEATED The Human Cost of Climate Change By Andrew Guzman Oxford Univ. 260 pp. $29.95 The dedication of Andrew Guzman's book makes obvious what he hopes to convey in the couple of hundred pages to follow. "To Nicholas and David,' he writes, referring to his sons, "Whose Generation Will Face The Consequences.' Many authors have written about how global warming will damage some of the world's most treasured landscapes and beloved species. This book aims to lay out exactly how bad it will be...
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Climate Change is Already Affecting the Amazon
2013-05-03 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Tribal groups in Earth's largest rainforest are already being affected by shifts wrought by climate change, reports a paper published last week in the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The paper, which is based on a collection of interviews conducted with indigenous leaders in the Brazilian Amazon, says that native populations are reporting shifts in precipitation patterns, humidity, river levels, temperature, and fire and agricultural cycles. These shifts, measured...
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Climate change creates maddening 'weather whiplash'
2013-05-03 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery: The term "weather whiplash" is being invoked to describe the drought-flood cycles beginning to take over the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The cause of the maddening weather extremes and their huge and varied consequences is none other than climate change, according to a new report by the climate science communication organization Climate Nexus, and backed by climate researchers. "In some parts of the world, including the 1.2 million square miles comprising the Mississippi River Basin, climate...
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Bonn climate change talks going 'surprisingly well', say delegates
2013-05-02 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The most surprising thing is that theres an awful lot of common sense being spoken on a whole range of issues, and its getting better as the week goes on, said Matthew Kennedy, of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. There is a relaxed atmosphere at the talks, which are being held in the former West German Bundestag (parliament) on the right bank of the Rhine built in the late 1980s just prior to German reunification and the move back to Berlin. Its been a reasonably good start,...
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When It Comes to Fighting Climate Change, We Need All the Tools in Our Tool Belt to Win
2013-05-01 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing piece about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out for the first Earth Day in 1970. He even went as far to say that the absence of grassroots action in today's environmental movement allowed Congress to sidestep climate legislation in 2009 and 2010. The groundswell of support for the first Earth Day was indeed a potent force. It was the...
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