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'We expect catastrophe' Manila, megacity on the climate frontline
2014-03-31 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Joshua Alvarez and his family fear for their lives when the monsoon rains come. Last August their two-bedroom flat in Manila was flooded when severe tropical storm Trami dumped 15 inches of rain (380mm) in a few hours and the local reservoir overflowed. They fled to a flyover with thousands of others as five large areas of the capital were inundated with muddy waters up to three metres deep and a state of calamity was declared in three Philippine provinces. In 2012, typhoon Haikui battered the megacity...
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IPCC report: John Kerry warns of climate 'catastrophe'
2014-03-31 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that failing to act immediately and decisively on climate change will have "catastrophic" and wide-ranging consequences. The top US diplomat was reacting to a UN expert panel report that said Monday soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and migration this century. "Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy," Mr Kerry, in Paris on Sunday for...
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United Kingdom: Rowan Williams: Western lifestyles have pushed the world into catastrophe
2014-03-30 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wales Online: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his fears for the planets climate - saying the winter flooding was a portent of what is to come. Dr Williams worries come on the eve of a ground-breaking report into the impacts of climate change. The former Archbishop of Wales, now Baron Williams of Oystermouth, blamed the lifestyle of Western countries for climate change, which he said is "pushing the environment towards crisis". Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he said...
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United Kingdom: Rowan Williams warns of climate catastrophe
2014-03-29 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has attacked Western lifestyles for causing climate change that is "pushing the environment towards crisis'. Writing in The Telegraph, Dr Williams says that the "appalling' floods and storms that devastated parts of Britain this winter were a demonstration of "what we can expect' in the future. He also takes a sideswipe at climate change sceptics. The floods in Britain and weather-related "catastrophes' in the poorest countries on Earth,...
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Extinction agenda: A conversation with the catastrophe detective
2014-03-14 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Malay Mail: Elizabeth Kolbert travels around the world documenting the alarming, large-scale vanishing of species. From trekking through the Andes rainforests to diving off the Great Barrier Reef, she follows scientists into the field to uncover the truth behind this mystery. The two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer had already written about climate change in her previous book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, so one could call her a catastrophe detective. In her new book...
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