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United Kingdom: Climate change: our sin of omission
2013-03-19 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Betrayal is a word not to be used lightly. But no betrayal is worse than the betrayal of children, and the Department for Education's attempt to remove all explicit reference to climate change from the national curriculum guidelines up to the age of 14 would, if it succeeds, betray a whole generation of children. The purpose of education is to prepare us for the challenges we will face in life. Climate change, and our success or failure in dealing with it, will be a defining challenge. A successful...
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Study: Climate change to worsen hurricane storm surge
2013-03-18 23:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Could the USA deal with a Hurricane Katrina every two years? Such a scenario is possible by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The frequency of extreme storm surges the deadly and devastating walls of water that roar ashore during hurricanes is projected to increase by as much as 10 times in coming decades because of warming temperatures, the study finds. Global warming has already doubled...
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Could climate change cost polar bears their white fur?
2013-03-18 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: It's long been known that the brown bears found on islands in Southeast Alaska are more closely related to polar bears than other brown bears. Now scientists wonder if they're a harbinger of what's to come for polar bears in the warming high Arctic. Researcher Beth Shapiro of the University of California in Santa Cruz told the Canadian Press the bears on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands (known as the ABC bears) appear to be descended from a polar bear population that got cut off from other...
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Even More Evidence Climate Change Will Hit East Coast Cities Particularly Hard
2013-03-18 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Cities: Batten down the hatches, East Coasters: A new study argues that for every one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees F) of global warming, the American Atlantic seaboard could see up to seven times as many Katrina-sized hurricanes. That's the conclusion of Aslak Grinsted, a climatologist at Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute, who led an effort to match East Coast storm surge records from the last 90 years with global temperatures. His results, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Move to drop debate on climate change in schools faces backlash
2013-03-18 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Educationists and student groups have joined environmental organisations to condemn government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for under-14-year-olds in English schools. The Guardian revealed on Monday that new draft guidelines for children in key stages 1 to 3 make no mention of it in the geography syllabus, with only a single reference to how carbon dioxide produced by humans affects the climate in the chemistry section. All references to sustainable development...
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