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Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy 2016, say experts
2016-01-14 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on 20-23 January showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns. A failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was seen as likely to have a bigger impact than the spread of weapons...
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Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
2015-12-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics, has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could stop oxygen...
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New global disaster plan sets targets to curb risk, losses
2015-03-18 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments set targets to substantially reduce deaths and economic losses from disasters at a U.N. conference in Japan on Wednesday, but critics were disappointed by the lack of a firm goal to ramp up financial support for poor countries. The non-binding agreement adopted after a marathon negotiating session, includes seven targets to measure progress on protecting people and assets that experts described as a leap forward. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year plan,...
Fukushima Disaster Still Global Nightmare
2014-06-03 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The corporate media silence on Fukushima has been deafening even though the melted-down nuclear power plants seaborne radiation is now washing up on American beaches. Ever more radioactive water continues to pour into the Pacific. At least three extremely volatile fuel assemblies are stuck high in the air at Unit 4. Three years after the March 11, 2011, disaster, nobody knows exactly where the melted cores from Units 1, 2 and 3 might be. Amid a dicey cleanup infiltrated by organized crime,...
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Global Warming, A Disaster In The Making
2014-04-19 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: The die is cast and if the world doesn't start to eliminate the enormous amount of pollution in our oceans and drastically reduce green house gases the already noticeable harmful effects of global warming will spiral out of control sooner than we think. The Obama White House has already outlined a plan of action to utilize the technology developed to cut and eventually eliminate all together the sources of green house emissions. The United Nations confers that the cost of inaction would be catastrophic...
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