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Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges for healing ailing bay
2015-10-14 15:05:23| Paper - Topix.net
The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming up, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsen fish-suffocating dead zones and even alter the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.
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Methane release from melting permafrost could trigger dangerous global warming
2015-10-13 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While most attention has been given to carbon dioxide, it isnt the only greenhouse gas that scientists are worried about. Carbon dioxide is the most important human-emitted greenhouse gas, but methane has also increased in the atmosphere and it adds to our concerns. While methane is not currently as important as carbon dioxide, it has a hidden danger. Molecule for molecule, methane traps more heat than carbon dioxide; approximately 30 times more, depending on the time frame under consideration....
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Exxon Arctic Drilling Benefitting From Global Warming
2015-10-10 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: For decades, the oil company Exxon questioned the science of climate change, even as it researched the possible impact of global warming on its operations in the Arctic -- and factored its findings into its plans. Above, U.S. Coast Guard flight loadmaster Kevin Fox, left, and University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Rick Steiner survey ice conditions in the Beaufort Sea, about 200 miles from shore, from the window of a Coast Guard C130 Sept. 30, 2009. Reuters/Yereth Rosen For the more than 20...
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NY Gov: Denying Global Warming Isn't a Survival Plan
2015-10-09 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday joined government leaders worldwide in signing an agreement to help combat global warming and keep the Earth's average temperature from rising dangerously. The Under Two MOU, a memorandum of understanding signed by more than three dozen government leaders, affirmed New York's commitment to helping keep the Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius and committed the state to working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions about 40 percent...
Bank of England head rebuts critics of his global warming remarks
2015-10-09 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bank of England Governor Mark Carney struck back on Thursday at critics of his recent remarks about the effect of climate change, saying it has real effects on the insurance industry, which the central bank regulates. He said the Group of 20 leading industrialized nations had this year asked the Financial Stability Board, which coordinates financial regulation of the G20 and which Carney chairs, to produce an assessment of the implications of climate change for financial stability. "One thing...
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