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Climate warming 10 times faster than historic rate
2013-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: A new report by Stanford University scientists finds that the earth is warming ten times faster than it has at any time since the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. If the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions continues, the researchers say, temperatures in North America, Europe and much of Asia could increase 4 degrees by 2050 and 9 degrees by the end of the century. Extreme weather events, including heat waves and heavy rainfall, are expected to become more severe and more frequent....
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Researchers find warming climate can cause more violent behavior
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: From road rage to riots, scientists say they now have clear evidence that rising temperatures lead to spikes in violence. In a study published yesterday in the journal Science, researchers crunched reams of data on conflict and climate from all over the world, dating from 10,000 B.C. to the present. They found "remarkably similar" behavioral changes showing that whether the subject is domestic violence in Australia, peasant rebellion in China or property crimes in the United States, blood seems...
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Two Climate Analysts Fault Gas Leaks, but Not as a Big Warming Threat
2013-08-01 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Two prominent analysts of human-driven global warming have offered fresh criticisms of the way Anthony Ingraffea, a Cornell University engineering professor, has been portraying the contribution of natural gas leaks to climate change. The researchers are Raymond Pierrehumbert, a climate scientist at the University of Chicago, and Richard A. Muller, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley who is best known of late for his research corroborating the extent of recent climate warming....
Global Warming Linked With Increased Violence Worldwide
2013-08-01 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A look back at the last 12,000 years of human history reveals even small spikes in temperature and precipitation can yield major surges in violence and social upheaval -- a troubling discovery when the world is projected to warm by an average of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2050. The study, published in the journal Science, was led by researchers from Princeton University and The University of California, Berkeley, who analyzed 60 studies from a number of disciplines exploring...
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Global Warming Could Cause 50 Percent Increase in Violent Conflict
2013-08-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: This week the exiled head of the Syrian opposition movement said he would meet representatives of President Bashar al-Assad in Geneva, a promising turn for a conflict that has left 100,000 dead, including many civilians, since spring 2011. It has been a long, bitter battle, but for many Syrians one root of the violence stretches back to several years before al-Assads troops began picking off anti-government protestors. Beginning in 2006, a prolonged, severe drought decimated farmland, spiked food...
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