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Cold-blooded species face wipeout as cannot cope global warming, study says
2015-05-20 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Many lizard and insect species could be completely wiped out by global warming because they cannot evolve quickly enough to deal with rising temperatures, a new report warns. Climate change threatens to wreak havoc on cold-blooded animals known as ectotherms because they cannot regulate their own body temperatures. Being particularly sensitive to their surrounding environment, these creatures can only tolerate temperatures just a few degrees above their normal range before they overheat and...
Energy subsidies top $6.6 trillion, lift carbon emissions by fifth: IMF study
2015-05-19 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The world subsidises energy consumption to the tune of more than $200,000 per second, with about 60 per cent of that going to support coal, according to researchers at the International Monetary Fund. In a paper published by the IMF, the authors found that energy subsidies are much more than previously estimated. These will rise to $US5.3 trillion ($6.6 trillion) in 2015, or about 6.5 per cent of total global output. For some developing nations, such as in the former Soviet Union and Pakistan,...
Study: Americans exposure heat extremes could rise six-fold by mid-century
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Vastly more Americans will be exposed to dangerous heat waves in future decades because of a combination of rising temperatures and rapid population growth in the South and West, scientists warned in a study published Monday. The risk of exposure to extreme heat could be as much as six times higher for the average U.S. citizens by the year 2070, compared with levels experienced in the last century, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the City University of New York...
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More Americans will feel high heat as global warming, population shifts combine, study finds
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The combination of global warming and shifting population means that by mid-century, there will be a huge increase in the number of Americans sweating through days that are extremely hot, a new study says. People are migrating into areas especially in the Southeast where the heat is likely to increase more, said the authors of a study published Monday by the journal Nature Climate Change. The study highlighted the Houston-Dallas-San Antonio and Atlanta-Charlotte-Raleigh corridors as the places...
Americans likely six times more very hot days by 2100: Study
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Americans are likely to have six times more days above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) by 2100, partly because of climate change, scientists said on Monday, with heat already linked to hundreds of deaths a year in the United States. By the late 21st century, exposure to sweltering heat would leap to between 10 and 14 billion "person days" a year, a team led by Bryan Jones of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs in New York wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change. There were 2.3...
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