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Climate change having impact across U.S

2013-01-12 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

United Press International: A congressional study found climate change is affecting the United States on several fronts, including health and agriculture, at a faster rate than expected. The Third National Climate Assessment found that climate change, driven by human activity, is increasingly impacting infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. "Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the report stated. "Americans...

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Impact of climate change hitting home, US report finds

2013-01-12 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The consequences of climate change are now hitting the United States on several fronts, including health, infrastructure, water supply, agriculture and especially more frequent severe weather, a congressionally mandated study has concluded. A draft of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, said observable change to the climate in the past half-century "is due primarily to human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuel," and that no areas of the United States were...

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Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds

2013-01-11 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

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Today's Brent crude slips over the impact of Chinese inflation data

2013-01-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Brent crude dropped by 27 cents to $111.60 per barrel, because of worries that China's inflation data could restrict further steps to implement policies to motivate growth in the world's second-largest oil consumer.

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