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City tackles climate change head-on
2013-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
La Crosse Tribune: Most of the climate debate occurs at national and global levels. But local officials arent ignoring the phenomenon. La Crosse is working with climate scientists to develop ways to better prepare for more extreme weather and other effects attributed to climate change. The city also hosted last year a climate change workshop for city and county officials sponsored by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts. The primary focus was to build consensus about pragmatic adaptations authorities...
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Climate change may put Montana wineries on map
2013-04-21 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spokesman Review: Climate change warnings tend to focus on the losers, but Western Montana would come up a winery winner, according to a new scientific analysis of temperature trends. Winter temperatures have been a limit to vineyard growth in our state, said Gary Tabor, director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in Bozeman and one of the co-authors of Climate Change, Wine and Conservation in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. So as we see our temperatures not being as Montanan...
Our Voice: Climate change challenge
2013-04-21 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: magine Joshua Tree National Park without Joshua trees. Researchers have documented that the habitat for Joshua trees is shrinking. Cameron Barrows, an associate research ecologist with the UCR Center for Conservation Biology in Palm Desert, found Joshua trees havent produced young trees in 30 percent of their southern distribution for decades. Climate models suggest the range of Joshua trees could shrink 90 percent by the end of the century. It might not be because of climate change alone....
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Climate change is hurting our health
2013-04-21 07:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winona Daily News: Its Earth Day again, and its appropriate to discuss human health and diseases that are resulting from global climate change. Oh, no, you say. Here comes the preachin. But it aint preachin no more, folks. Its here. In the United States, we are just starting to feel the effects of climate change, but the majority of the rest of the planet has been gravely affected. We must take our heads out of the sand and acknowledge that the extremes of weather change have been happening in the Lower...
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Winemaking would suffer under climate change, study finds
2013-04-21 01:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press-Enterprise: Grape growing in the Temecula Valley Wine Country and other prime wine-producing regions of California would wither by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and farmers dont make significant adjustments to their crops, say the authors of a new climate change study. Under a worst-case scenario, the area suitable for wine production in the Temecula region would shrink by more than half by 2050, according to the work by Conservation International and Environmental Defense Fund,...
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