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Indians question how far flash-flooding disaster was manmade
2013-06-28 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As India picks up the pieces from the worst-ever flash floods in the Himalayas, the nation is beginning to wonder to what extent human intervention specifically religious tourism and hydroelectric projects contributed to the disaster. About 1,000 people have been confirmed dead in Uttarakhand state from last week's flooding, and state authorities say the actual toll could be three to five times higher. The Himalayas are a relatively young mountain range with a fragile geology prone to landslides....
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India floods: a man-made disaster
2013-06-28 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The terrible floods in India's tiny north Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, which killed more than 1,000 people, left 70,000 stranded for days and destroyed livelihoods, have been officially termed a natural calamity caused by cloudbursts and unprecedented heavy monsoon rainfall. However, the true causes of the epic tragedy lie in the grievous damage recently wrought on the region's ecology by the runaway growth of tourism, unchecked proliferation of roads, hotels, shops and multistory housing in...
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Study: 97 percent Agreement on Manmade Global Warming
2013-05-17 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The scientific agreement that climate change is happening, and that it's caused by human activity, is significant and growing, according to a new study published Thursday. The research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of climate research to date, finds that 97.1 percent of the studies published between 1991 to 2011 that expressed a position on manmade climate change agreed that it was happening, and that it was due to human activity. The study looked at peer reviewed research that...
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More Canadians believe in man-made climate change than Americans, Brits
2013-04-13 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Maybe we all are a bunch of tree huggers in Canada. According to a survey, released by Angus Reid on Friday, Canadians are more environmentally conscious than our British and American cousins. Specifically: - 58 per cent of Canadians, 47 per cent of Americans and 45 per cent of Brits believe that "global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities." - Only 13 per cent of Canadians believe climate change has yet to be proven; 20 per cent...
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Statistics: Global and Regional Trends in Mill Fibre Consumption and Man-Made Fibre Production, 4th quarter 2012
2013-02-01 17:13:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This report includes statistical data, insight and analyses of mill consumption of textile fibres as well as man-made fibre production and trade covering the period 2006-11.
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