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Scientists warn world will miss key climate target
2016-08-06 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5C upper limit for global warming, only eight months after the target was set. The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5C, measured in relation to pre-industrial temperatures, was the headline outcome of the Paris climate negotiations last December. The talks were hailed as a major success by scientists and campaigners, who claimed that, by setting the target, desertification, heatwaves, widespread...
Russia: For climate scientists, the Siberian anthrax outbreak is a sign of whats to come
2016-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Standard: If youre a climate scientist, what happens when your dire predictions start coming true? The ongoing anthrax outbreak in Siberia is offering us a preview: What was once considered a future theoretical possibility??a re-animated deadly bacterium emerging from the permafrost??is now a reality. Throughout July, temperatures in northern Siberia have soared as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) during whats typically the warmest part of the year. Its unknown exactly how the disease...
Chicago-Area Scientists Convert Greenhouse Gas into Fuel Source
2016-08-06 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tonight: By using a process similar to photosynthesis in plants, Chicago area scientists have taken carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted from human activity, and turned it into a usable fuel source. The study, published July 29 in the academic journal Science, could help solve two critical environmental problems: global warming and our reliance on burning fossil fuels, which in turn contributes to climate change. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois...
Scientists tease out climate changes role in Zika spread
2016-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Athletes and tourists converging on Brazil this week are crowding into a country where rapid environmental change and natural weather fluctuations nurtured a viral epidemic that has gone global. The Zika virus has exploded throughout South America, up through Mexico and Puerto Rico and into Florida, but the conditions it needed to fester in northern Brazil were rooted in urbanization and poverty. The initial Brazilian outbreak appears to have been aided by a drought driven by El Nio, and by higher...
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Climate scientists trained to be on hot seat
2016-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPR: Testimony from scientists can be crucial to lawmakers, judges and juries. But explaining complex topics like climate can be a challenge. A program at St. Paul's Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pairing scientists with lawyers to improve communication. "We're training scientists to be lawyers ... getting them to understand how important it is to not tweet, not make jokes, not do things that would be discovered that would hurt the credibility of their research," said Mitchell Hamline professor...
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