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Muddled impartiality is still harming climate coverage
2014-04-03 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Amid the strongest evidence yet that humans have changed the climate, media reporting is giving sceptics too much of a free rein A damning verdict on the BBC's coverage of climate change has just been delivered, and rightly so. As the UK's most trusted media outlet, the BBC is vital to the public debate, which is why the criticisms, published this week by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in its Communicating Climate Science report, are so important. The BBC has some...
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IPCC warns climate chaos will worsen, harming Australia's economy
2014-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Australia's multibillion-dollar mining, farming and tourism industries all face significant threats as worsening global warming causes more dangerous and extreme weather, the world's leading climate science body will warn. A final draft of a five-year assessment by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, seen by Fairfax Media, details the global impacts of intensifying climate change, including the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, reduced crop yields and the loss of trillions...
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climate
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Increasing Ocean Acidity Harming More Than Just Corals
2013-12-25 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The chemistry of the oceans is changing. And it isn't just the corals and the baby oysters that are unhappy. It makes juvenile rockfish really anxious, and it upsets the digestion of sea urchins. The pH (a measure of acidity -- the lower the pH, the more acid the water) of the planet's oceans is dropping rapidly, largely because the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing. Since carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, the seas are responding to global change. The...
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Could oil and gas exploration be harming whale populations?
2013-10-02 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
After a spate of unexplained whale deaths in areas where seismic testing by the offshore oil and gas sector has recently occurred, many are concerned the industry could somehow be responsible for causing the unnatural death of whales.
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populations
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Are governments' trade policies harming the growth of renewables
2013-09-25 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When president Barack Obama announced his climate action plan on a sweltering June day, it launched his country into a new round of debate about the impact of green energy initiatives on the economy. Republicans claim that Obama's initiatives will increase energy costs, thereby killing jobs. Democrats and environmentalists claim that there will be more, not fewer jobs. In the UK, the debate over the economic impact of greener energy is also heating up. RWE npower recently claimed that green energy...
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