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Climate calamity top threat to global economy in 2016
2016-01-14 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Disasters caused by climate change beat nuclear proliferation and forced migrations to head economists concerns for the year ahead. A survey of 750 experts by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting in Switzerland next week pushed the environment to first place in 11 years. Climate change is exacerbating more risks than ever before in terms of water crises, food shortages, constrained economic growth, weaker societal cohesion and increased security risks, said Cecilia Reyes, chief...
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Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy 2016, say experts
2016-01-14 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on 20-23 January showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns. A failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was seen as likely to have a bigger impact than the spread of weapons...
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Climate change means more fear, less fun for global middle class: UBS
2016-01-11 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The erosion of wealth among the world's middle class due to climate change is a threat to economic and social stability which could spur its 1 billion members to push for action on global warming, Swiss bank UBS Group AG said. In a study of middle-class consumption in 215 cities around the world, UBS analysts found spending priorities were noticeably different in cities most at risk from climate change such as Los Angeles, Tokyo and Shanghai. In those top-risk cities, the middle class spent...
Climate Models Have Been Wrong About Global Warming For Six Decades
2015-12-29 00:37:28| Apparel - Topix.net
Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during the Center for American Progress 10th Anniversary Conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2013. Climate models used by scientists to predict how much human activities will warm the planet have been over-predicting global warming for the last six decades, according to a recent working paper by climate scientists.
War gaming climate: How global warming could trigger nationalism
2015-12-24 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: What do US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, the Prince of Wales and pop star Charlotte Church have in common? Theyve all linked climate change to the Syrian refugee crisis and drawn scorn for it. To critics, blaming global warming diminishes the responsibility of people, whether President Bashar Al-Assad, Daesh or Western leaders who failed to intervene. The hoo-ha highlights a gap in our thinking. Because the shifts in temperature, rainfall and sea levels expected over the coming decades...
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