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What's role climate in sociopolitical disasters?
2014-12-10 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: It's not your imagination that heat waves, hurricanes, floods and droughts are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Global warming is at the root of the problem, but its impact goes beyond the environment. As the PBS special "Extreme Realities: Severe Weather, Climate Change, and Our National Security" explains, "severe weather is the new normal," and it is having catastrophic domino effect on the geopolitical landscape. Part of the "Journey to Planet Earth" series, the PBS program...
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Lima climate talks: India tells rich nations not to use disasters make profit
2014-12-09 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Urging rich nations not to use disasters as tools to make business profit, India on the first day of the high-level segment of the UN climate talks on Tuesday sought them to cooperate to solve the "global problems" of climate change without getting into the "price-tag" of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime. Bringing the sentiments of people of most of the developing countries at the UN platform, Indian environment and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar cited past examples where...
Faith groups divided over God's role in climate change, natural disasters
2014-11-21 06:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Americans largely concur that God created the Earth. But when it comes to how he wants its environment treated, and how much hes willing to intercede -- the agreement ends. A new poll released Friday shows major differences between faith groups on topics including concern over climate change, whether natural disasters are a sign of biblical end times and how deeply connected they feel to nature. White evangelicals are the most skeptical of climate change and the most likely to say recent natural...
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India: Disasters in the making
2014-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: On September 6, when the floodwaters first started appearing in the Rambagh neighbourhood of Srinagar, Shakeel Ahmad and a dozen of his neighbours stood under a ceaseless downpour, shouting at each other for sandbags. In surprise, they stared at the small cement drain that meandered through their neighbourhood. Torrents of waters came rushing through it, inches away from overflowing its small embankments and pouring into their low-lying houses on both sides. The drain, they rued, would be the one...
Cunningham Lindsey uses Wi-Fi units to work during natural disasters
2014-10-31 00:07:57| Wireless - Topix.net
After trialling a Wi-Fi unit during the Queensland floods in 2013 to process insurance claims in a timely fashion, Cunningham Lindsey rolled out Wi-Fi access points to its 48 Australian offices. "The impact of the floods brought logistical issues, but with this [Wi-Fi] device, these were minimised," said Cunningham Lindsey's national IT manager, Brian Kable.
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