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Wash. state climate change bill signed into law
2013-04-03 02:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Tuesday a bill he championed that would study the best ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the measure, an independent consultant would review efforts to cut carbon emissions in Washington state and elsewhere. A newly created work group of legislators and other leaders would use that evaluation to recommend actions to reduce pollution associated with climate change. The group will be expected to prioritize strategies that are the most effective and...
Big support for Keystone, mixed climate change views: Pew poll
2013-04-02 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Demonstrators carry a replica of a pipeline during a march against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington, Feb. President Barack Obama will please 66 percent of Americans while riling his liberal base if he approves the Keystone XL pipeline opposed by environmentalists but backed by the oil industry, according to a new poll out Tuesday from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. And the survey got a mixed message from the public on climate change. Officially, the State Department is still reviewing...
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Climate Change Fueling Extreme Australian Weather, Group Says
2013-04-02 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australia is facing increased risks of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wild fires and drought spurred by climate change, according to a report released today by the nations Climate Commission. Key food-growing regions across Australias southeast and southwest are likely to experience more droughts in the future, the commission said in a statement accompanying the report. The number of record hot days in Australia has doubled since the 1960s and a long-term drought is affecting the...
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Climate Change Disrupts Astronomical Calculations for Amazon Indians
2013-04-02 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Forecasts that Brazil's Amazonian Indians make with guidance from the stars to determine the best time to fish and plant crops are being disrupted by climate change. "Shamans say their forecasts are becoming inexact and we find that certain phenomena caused by climate change are disrupting their calculations," astronomer Germano Afonso, coordinator of a study among indigenous groups, told Efe. Afonso, who built and operates an observatory in the Amazon region, said that observing the constellations...
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Public alarm over climate change grows
2013-04-02 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Daily News: Yale researchers have found that Americans are growing increasingly alarmed about climate change. On March 15 Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, appeared on national television saying that Americans are ready for the government to end the silence on climate change. He cited a study called Global Warmings Six Americas, published on March 6 by researchers from the YPCC and the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication, which showed...
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