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Canada: Predicting future climate change may lie in the past
2013-03-22 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The key to predicting future climate change may lie buried in some of Canada's oldest weather records, including the 1745 observations of a Montreal doctor and logbooks from William Parry's 1819 voyage to the Arctic. Now, a group of Canadian volunteers is racing to digitize those handwritten books before they fall apart. They're part of a worldwide volunteer movement to hunt down old weather data, so that they can be used to test the newest climate-change models. In September, the Intergovernmental...
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Climate Change Now Seen as Security Threat Worldwide
2013-03-22 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Defence establishments around the world increasingly see climate change as posing potentially serious threats to national and international security, according to a review of high-level statements by the world's governments released here Thursday. The review, "The Global Security Defense Index on Climate Change: Preliminary Results," found that nearly three out of four governments for which relevant information is available view the possible effects of climate change as a serious national security...
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United Kingdom: MSPs' warning over climate change targets
2013-03-22 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: THE Scottish Government has been urged by four Holyrood committees to improve its approach to climate-change targets. MSPs welcomed ministers ambition but urged them to look again at key areas. Without further effort, the government risked missing some annual targets and should promote a step-change in public attitude to climate change, the reports said. They added that details were lacking and communities must be made to feel part of the solution. Last October, it was revealed carbon-emission...
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'Temperature Rising': Will Climate Change Bring More Extreme Weather?
2013-03-21 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: According to the historical record dating back to 1895, 2012 was the hottest year this country has ever seen. But it's not just that the temperature has risen - from deadly tornadoes to the widespread coastal damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy, we seem to be living through a period of intensified and heightened weather extremes. Whether or not these harsh weather events are connected to global warming or are simply the random violence nature visits upon us is one of the central questions that...
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The connection between climate change denial books and right-wing think tanks
2013-03-21 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Science Watch: Books denying human-caused climate change and its significance are one key means of creating an aura of credibility around manufactured uncertainty and attacks on climate science and scientists. New research published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist finds a strong link between right-wing think tanks and 108 climate change denial books published through 2010. "It appears that at least 90% of denial books do not undergo peer review," the study says, "allowing authors or editors to recycle...
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