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Crop pests advancing with global warming
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Crop pests and diseases are moving towards the poles at about the same speed as warmer temperatures. The finding suggests that climate change is driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles. Ecologists have already documented such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects The changing climate...
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Crop Pests Spreading North with Global Warming
2013-09-02 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Crop pests and diseases are moving towards the poles at about the same speed as warmer temperatures. The finding suggests that climate change is driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles. Ecologists have already documented such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects. The changing climate...
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Is global warming really slowing down?
2013-09-02 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Chances are you`ve heard people say that global warming has "stopped," "paused," or hit a "slowdown." It`s a favorite talking point of political conservatives like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who recently declared that there has been "no recorded warming since 1998." Climate skeptics frequently use these arguments to cast doubt on climate science and to downplay the urgency of addressing global warming. Last year, for instance, Fox News pronounced global warming "over." Scientists disagree. It`s true...
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United Kingdom: How the Pacific has put global warming on hold (but not for long)
2013-09-01 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Changes in the flow of heat between the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean could help to explain the recent "pause" in global warming that has seen a fall in the rate at which global surface temperatures has risen over the past 15 years or so, a study has suggested. The current global warming hiatus, where the increase in global temperatures has levelled off, can be explained at least in part by natural changes to a cold Pacific Ocean current called La Nina which may have helped to absorb excess...
Warming helps crop pests spread north, south: study
2013-09-01 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a study showed on Sunday. The spread of beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, funghi and other pests in a warming world may be quicker than for many types of wild animals and plants, perhaps because people are accidentally moving them with harvests, it said. Scientists based in Britain studied more than 600 types...
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