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Scrum co-inventor: Agile can lower risk, but it won't tell you how to code
2014-03-31 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Ken Schwaber was an originator of the popular Scrum framework for agile software development, along with Jeff Sutherland, and he was a signatory of 2001's
Climate change heightens risk of conflict, hunger - UN panel
2014-03-31 03:38:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, flood and migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. Left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions may cost trillions of dollars in damage to property and ecosystems and in bills for shoring up climate defenses, it said. The report said the impact of climate change was already being felt and would increase with every additional degree that temperatures rose. "Increasing...
Panels Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
2014-03-31 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress,...
People 'ill-prepared' to cope with risk of climate change
2014-03-30 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ITV: Experts have warned that in many cases, people are ill prepared to cope with the risks of a changing climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report says the world has seen changes in recent decades to water resources as a result of melting glaciers and differences in rainfall, and reductions in wheat and maize yields. There has been a decrease in the number of people dying from the cold but an increase in heat-related deaths in some areas, such as England and Wales, the report...
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Climate change could wipe out wildlife and is major risk to UK forests
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change poses a major risk to forests all over the world, threatening widespread tree deaths that could wipe out wildlife, exacerbate global warming and hurt the economy, a major new UN report will warn today. According to a leaked final draft of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, tree mortality and associated forest dieback will become apparent in many regions sooner than previously anticipated. Forest dieback is a major environmental risk with potentially...
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