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Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns
2014-10-31 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazils leading scientists. In a new report, Antonio Nobre, researcher in the governments space institute, Earth System Science Centre, says the logging and burning of the worlds greatest forest might be connected to worsening droughts such as the one currently plaguing So Paulo and is likely to lead eventually to more extreme...
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Climate scientist describes hotter, drier Oregon
2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette-Times: How about a 24-inch rise in the sea level at Newport by 2100? Or an increase in temperature of up to 14 degrees Fahrenheit? Those are some of the possible effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest, as outlined by Phil Mote, who helped to write the Northwest portion of the third national climate assessment that was released May 6. Mote is an Oregon State University professor and the director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute for the Oregon University System. During a one-hour...
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UK chief scientist: climate change will not be beneficial to the UK
2014-03-12 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The chief scientific adviser to the government, Sir Mark Walport, has told MPs not to expect any benefits from a warmer climate, adding that the effects in the long-term will be harmful. Walport was commenting on science journalist and climate denier Matt Ridleys book, The Rational Optimist, which argues that climate change will more beneficial to the UK than it will harmful. He said, Whilst there may be trivial benefits in some parts of the world for some of the time, the long-term direction...
Scientist predicts climate change weed spread
2014-02-09 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scoop: New research from the University of Auckland shows invasive tropical and sub-tropical plants that displace native species could thrive and spread if global temperatures rise as climate scientists predict. Plant ecology PhD student Christine Sheppard from the Universitys Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, used bioclimatic models to investigate future potential distributions of potential new weeds already invasive in other countries: Bangalow Palm, Queensland...
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Met Office Scientist Says Climate Change To Blame For UK Storms
2014-02-09 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The severe storms that have lashed southern England are almost certainly linked to climate change, the Met Office's top scientist has said. Dame Julia Slingo said: "In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it." Slingo was speaking before the publication of the Met Office's latest analysis on recent climatic events, by the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. The report...