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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...
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...
Indian Ocean may be key to global warming 'hiatus'
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: The Indian Ocean may be the dark horse in the quest to explain the puzzling pause in global warming, researchers report on 18 May in Nature Geoscience1. The study finds that the Indian Ocean may hold more than 70% of all heat absorbed by the upper ocean in the past decade. Scientists have long suspected that oceans have played a crucial role in the so-called warming hiatus by storing heat trapped in the atmosphere by rising levels of greenhouse gases. But pinpointing exactly which ocean acts as...
Ocean Microbes And Climate Change: How Marine Bacteria Are Spurring Global Warming
2015-05-19 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: They may be tiny, but they pack a strong punch. Scientists are finding that the smallest ocean organisms can have a major impact on one of the biggest issues of the 21st century climate change. New research has unpacked the role of phytoplankton and ocean bacteria in the formation of sea spray aerosol, the tiny particles that enter the atmosphere and help create the drops of moisture that form clouds, which control earths temperature. It shows that such microbes could actually moderate the chemistry...
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Study Finds Sun Belt Population Growth & Warming Climate Could Quadruple Exposure to Extreme Heat
2015-05-18 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A valuable study published this week in Nature Climate Change projects that exposure to extreme heat in the United States is likely to rise enormously by mid century, driven equally by demographic shifts boosting Sun Belt populations and projected changes in heat waves in a warming climate. Seth Borenstein at the Associated Press has written a nice summary of the research, undertaken by a multi-disciplinary team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and the City University...
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