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40 Years On: 'It's Time We Start Listening' to Global Warming Prediction
2014-03-20 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: NOAA handout satellite image of Hurricane Sandy taken on October 27, 2012 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce)Citing a peer reviewed scientific paper written over 40 years ago that clearly demonstrated the dangers of human-made carbon pollution and accurately predicted it would create a future of global warming, Dana Nuccitelli at the Guardian points out Thursday that "perhaps it's about time that we start listening" to climate scientists. The paper, written...
Putting Financial Well Being Above Our Childrens Ability to Survive Warming Planet
2014-03-20 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Diego Free Press: Each year there are more extreme weather events not only in the US but all over the world. Most scientists agree that, as more carbon dioxide is pumped into the air and the gaseous composition of the atmosphere is changed, extreme weather events are more likely to happen. As the earth warms due to greenhouse gasses (GHGs), polar and glacier ice melts and more moisture is held in the atmosphere which is deposited in torrents of precipitation. The Arctic permafrost and subsea waters contain over...
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Scientists Sound the Alarm on Global Warming, But Americans Sleep In
2014-03-18 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Gallup released the results of a new poll on Americans` opinions about climate change earlier this month. For those concerned about global warming, the data was not promising. On one hand, about two-thirds of Americans believed that global warming is happening or will happen during their lifetime--which, incidentally, happens to be the correct answer. But only about 36% of Americans said they believe that global warming will pose a "serious threat to their way of life" during their lifetimes. Climate...
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Global warming: Attitudes toward our changing world
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WNPR: A recent Gallup poll found that, when it comes to climate change, Americans just aren't that worried. Less than 36% of those surveyed recognized global warming as an immediate threat, while most placed economic, federal spending, and healthcare issues above the need for environmental action. Last week concerned Senate Democrats held an overnight climate change filibuster, where senators drew attention to the urgency and effects of our warming planet. On our program, we take a look at societys...
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Leaked IPCC report predicts violent conflict due global warming
2014-03-18 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: A leaked report of the United Nations panel has predicted severe impacts of global warming on food-grain production, fresh-water resources and human settlements across the globe with Asia facing the brunt of it. The document, second in series of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report which is to be made public in Tokyo on March 31, also carries details of how the global warming will create a civil-war kind of situation in many parts of the world due to huge...
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