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In Paris, Managing Humanitys Relationship with Earths Climate Becomes Normal
2015-11-30 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The best thing about the Paris climate conference known as COP21, which began today with a round of position-staking and prodding speeches by President Obama and dozens of other world leaders, is that dealing with global warming has become normal, and thats a good thing. Gone is the seal the deal language, aiming for some grand top-down accord, in the months before the failed Copenhagen talks in 2009. I was heartened when President Obama centered his speech on this explanation of whats being...
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'Racing Extinction' sounds alarm Earth's disappearing species
2015-11-30 14:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature: Raising awareness and outrage about dolphin slaughter in Japan, The Cove succeeded in saving thousands of dolphins. Now filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and producer Fisher Stevens have teamed up on an even more ambitious documentary that aims to do the same for endangered species and their disappearing habitats. Racing Extinction, which had a theatrical run in 10 cities this fall, will premiere to a wider audience on Dec. 2 to draw global attention to the biodiversity clock, which is ticking down ...
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Idea of slow climate change in Earth's past misleading
2015-11-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In order to predict how today's ecosystems will react to increasing temperatures over the course of global warming, palaeobiologists study how climate change happened in Earth's history and what the consequences were. In order to compare the events of the past with current changes researchers need data on the scope of the changes. What was the speed with which temperatures increased or decreased? What was the magnitude of the change in temperatures? Until now, the general consensus has been that...
South Africa Sets Earths Hottest October Temperature on Record: 119°F
2015-10-30 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Earth`s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of October occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in South Africa, when Vredendal hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F). According to weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera, this is also the highest temperature ever observed at Vredendal and the third highest temperature in South African history. The new global October heat record was made possible by a "Berg wind" -- a hot dry wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau...
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Earths vital resource soil
2015-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of Malta: One gram of healthy soil may harbour up to a billion bacteria, 900,000 fungi and a few thousand other microorganisms. Most of these benefit the environment and only a few might pose a serious threat to health or behave as pests. Some refer to it as earth, local farmers occasionally call it dust, and others even dare calling it dirt; however, to most of us, it is just soil. Soil is that loose material on the surface of the Earth produced through centuries or even millennia of rock weathering and...
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