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Australia: Tackling climate change and changing energy systems
2013-12-09 06:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: "Avoiding a climate crisis, while meeting a growing demand of energy services, is one of the most challenging issues humanity is facing today," says Dr Malte Meinshausen, Senior Researcher at the Melbourne School of Earth Sciences. Dr Meinshausen is also Co-ordinator of Melbourne`s newly launched Australian-German College of Climate & Energy Transitions (TRACE), a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and German partners the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the...
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Sky-high race against a changing climate in the Amazon
2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: When tropical ecologist Greg Asner glances down at the Amazon tree canopy from the window of his twin-engine plane, he sees more than indeterminate treetops punctuated by looping rivers and bright bursts of flowers. With a spectrometer mounted in a shiny gold canister behind him, he is fingerprinting individual tree species in an effort to draw the first large-scale biodiversity map of the worlds biggest expanse of tropical forest. Scientists know the Amazon is astoundingly diverse, but...
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Season of smoke: Changing climate leads to bigger, smokier wildfires
2013-10-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: Each fire season is a roll of the dice. Some years lightning strikes more often. Other years soggy summers keep big burns at bay. This year more than 4,000 wildfires burned almost a million acres across the Northwest. That might sound like a lot, but it falls below the 10-year average. In the last decade, only one year has had fewer fires than this year. Scientists are quick to point out that no single fire season can be attributed to changes in the global climate, but as summers in the...
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It's Clear Humans Are Changing World's Climate, Panel Says
2013-09-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Declaring that "human influence on the climate system is clear," a U.N.-assembled panel of scientists reported Friday that "it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which brings together hundreds of researchers from around the world, adds that "warming in the climate system is unequivocal and since 1950 many changes have been observed throughout the climate system...
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Climate Changing 10 Times Faster than in Past 65 Million Years
2013-08-01 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Stanford University climate researchers warn that the likely rate of climate change over the next century will be 10 times faster than the rate of any climate shift in the past 65 million years, meaning the planet will undergo one of the largest changes in climate since the dinosaurs went extinct. Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science, and Chris Field, a professor of biology and of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford Woods Institute for the...
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