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Nebraska lawmakers advance climate change study
2013-04-23 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nebraska lawmakers gave first round approval Tuesday to a measure that would launch a state review of climate change. Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the proposal by Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm after a handful of lawmakers denounced global warming. The bill still must pass through two more rounds of debate. Several scientific reviews have confirmed that 97 percent of scientists agree human activities contribute to climate change. Scientists overwhelmingly say that global climate change is happening...
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Canadian Lawyer Wants Climate Change Warning Labels On Gas Pumps
2013-04-23 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Climate change is a very real threat to humanity, as many scientists have warned us. A Canadian lawyer named Robert Shirkey wants all Canadians who pump gasoline to understand the threat of climate change. He started a campaign, ourhorizon.org that calls for labels to be put on gas pump nozzles. The campaign aims to get municipalities in Canadian provinces to pass legislation that require the labels. There are 4,000 municipalities in Canada. The campaign`s website contains a database of municipal...
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'Resource Shocks' Caused By Climate Change Cited As National Security Threat
2013-04-23 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PlanetSave: We tend to expect a relatively conservative stance from our intelligence community on most any issue affecting national security, and, in particular, the dual issue of global warming and climate change. This 'traditional` stance reflects the general position of our elected leaders who continue to resist taking meaningful action and keep kicking the climate change can down the road. But perhaps our intelligence experts, being experts at gathering information, have at last come to see the true "threat...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Coral Reefs and the Marine Environment
2013-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN Chronicle: It is estimated that 70 per cent of the Earths surface area is made up of oceans,1 the most productive habitat, comprising 75 per cent of all known species. This unique environment, which remains generally unexplored and hidden from the world, plays an important role in regulating global temperature and is the primary producer of oxygen. Coral reefs, which comprise only about 0.5 per cent of the ocean floor, are complex three-dimensional structures built up over thousands of years as a result of...
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Climate Change is Finally Real for the American People
2013-04-22 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: 2012 seems set to go down in history as the year in which climate change became real for the United States. Over a period of six months, New York City flooded, the biggest drought in half a century settled into the Midwest, and wildfires burned 9.3 million acres in one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded. By July last year, over 40,000 daily heat records had been broken in the U.S. The question now is whether last years epic run of epic events will lead to new momentum for climate solutions....
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