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Climate Change Can Hurt Globalized Economy too
2016-06-11 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MedIndia: The analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University revealed that the susceptibility of the global economic network to workers' heat-stress has doubled in the last decade. 'Climate damages do not only depend on the warming of our planet, but also on the resilience of our societies and economies.' Advertisement It showed for the first time how enhanced connectivity of the global network of supply can amplify production losses, as these losses can be spread...
'Climate change implicated in France floods'
2016-06-11 04:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Torrential rains which caused flooding in France recently bore the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, according to research to be submitted to a scientific journal next week. Global warming, especially in the last 50 years, had almost doubled the likelihood of the kind of three-day downpour that burst the banks of the Seine and Loire rivers, they calculated. At the very least, the probability of such an extreme rainfall event had increased by more than 40 per cent. "We found that...
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Turns out, climate change hurts globalized economy too
2016-06-11 02:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: The globalization has made the economic production far more vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather, including heat stress on workers, according to a new study. The analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University revealed that the susceptibility of the global economic network to workers' heat-stress has doubled in the last decade. It showed for the first time how enhanced connectivity of the global network of supply can amplify production losses, as...
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Climate change implicated in France floodsl: study
2016-06-10 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Torrential rains which caused flooding in France recently bore the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, according to research to be submitted to a scientific journal next week. Global warming, especially in the last 50 years, had almost doubled the likelihood of the kind of three-day downpour that burst the banks of the Seine and Loire rivers, they calculated. At the very least, the probability of such an extreme rainfall event had increased by more than 40 percent. "We found that...
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Climate change: Melbourne renewable energy project provides global blueprint
2016-06-10 05:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its an unmistakably Melbourne setting: councillor Arron Wood is the citys environment portfolio chairman, standing in a rooftop courtyard as the faint sound of trams rises up from Swanston Street down below and the surrounding skyline reaches into a cool autumn sky. Against this backdrop, not to mention the solar thermal panels on the next level, Wood does not hold back when discussing how cities can lead from the front in tackling climate change. He evokes the philosophy of Michael Bloomberg,...
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