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Australia: Scientists say climate change link to bushfires demands action
2013-10-21 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With claims that current climate policies would lead to more bushfires, Deputy Greens Leader Adam Bandt was accused of politicising the a natural disaster, but scientists say the link between global warming and fires is established and demands action. Transcript ANNABEL CRABB, PRESENTER: Behind the fire fronts, a secondary battle is underway, a political dispute about the links between climate change, extreme weather and bushfires. Deputy Greens Leader Adam Bandt started it with a tweet...
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Scientists say climate change is challenging Iowa agriculture
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Iowa: More than 150 scientists from 36 colleges and universities in Iowa are jointly issuing a call for action against global warming. The director of the Climate Science Program at Iowa State, Gene Takle, is one of the lead authors of the group`s Iowa Climate Statement for 2013. "The last couple of years have underscored the fact that we are very vulnerable to weather conditions and weather extremes in Iowa," Takle says. Both years were marked by heavy spring rains followed by droughts that damaged...
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Iowa scientists: Climate change affecting farming
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than 150 Iowa professors and climate researchers have signed on to a statement released Friday that says extreme weather patterns caused by climate change are affecting farming, and updated practices are needed to prevent soil erosion and adjust to the new reality. "Every year, evidence has been building in Iowa and around the world that there are consequences to the continued release of large quantities of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere," said David Courard-Hauri, chairman of the...
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Scientists: U.S. Climate Credibility Getting Fracked
2013-10-10 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As fracking catapults the United States to the top of the list of the world's largest crude oil and natural gas producers, climate scientists worry that the nation's booming fossil fuels production is growing too quickly with too little concern about its impact on climate change, possibly endangering America's efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. is likely to become the world's top producer of crude oil and natural gas by the end of 2013, producing more hydrocarbons than either...
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Climate Scientists Assess The Latest Report from U.N. Panel
2013-10-03 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Jennifer Francis, research professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The just-released IPCC report summarizing progress in climate science over the past six years reaffirms the messages delivered in previous reports, but with more certainty, more urgency, more clarity, and more specificity. Bottom line: the Earth is warming and changing, and humans are causing it. In my view, the most noteworthy aspect of the report is the consistency of the trends...
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