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Fitch warns on UK's AAA rating
2013-01-15 15:17:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK continues to risk losing its top AAA credit rating if it does not reduce its debt, a senior figure at Fitch Ratings tells the BBC.
Act now to mitigate impact of climate change, study warns
2013-01-14 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery News: It may be too late to stop climate change, but some of its most dangerous effects can be delayed, according to the first study that looks at climate, policies and impacts over time. The study, by a team of primarily U.K. scientists, concludes that while climate change impacts that are avoidable with policy changes are small by 2030 and 2050, an ounce of policy prevention today eventually becomes a pound of cure by 2100. In other words, strong emissions policies today can delay for decades the...
United Kingdom: No wind farms, no food, warns Sir Ian Wilmut
2013-01-13 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: A WORLD-famous scientist has warned that future generations of Scots could suffer serious food shortages unless people accept wind farms as a necessary evil. Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, the creator of the worlds first cloned sheep, Dolly, said that turbines were vital to reducing the carbon emissions blamed for global warming and an increase in flooding which is destroying food crops. Writing for Scotland on Sunday today, Wilmut says the connection must be made between the record rainfall...
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US study warns of extreme heat, more severe storms
2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A government report warned the United States could face more frequent severe weather including heat waves and storms for decades to come as temperatures rise far beyond levels being planned for. The draft Third National Climate Assessment, a scientific study legally mandated to advise US policymakers, made few bones that carbon emissions have been causing climate change -- a source of controversy among some lawmakers. "Evidence for climate change abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the...
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Major report warns climate change could raise temperatures by 10 degrees
2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A major draft federal report concludes that climate change is already affecting U.S. residents through heat waves, droughts and other changes, and warns that temperatures could increase as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit if global carbon emissions keep soaring. The third National Climate Assessment, released Friday, said theres unambiguous evidence that earth is warming, and that climate change over the past 50 years is driven primarily by human activity, especially from burning fossil fuels....
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