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Pollock, salmon and global warming: tricky questions of sustainability
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crosscut: Editor's note: Seattle's $5 billion commercial fishing industry has defined and sustained this city from its founding. Earlier this week, writer Daniel Jack Chasan looked at the local fleet's key role in the world's largest single fishery, the walleye pollock off Alaska's coast and in the eastern Bering Sea. Today, he concludes the examination of the pollock's sustainability and we wrap up our Thanks for All the Fish series. Basically, everyone wants the North Pacific fishing management system...
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COLOMBIA: Global warming and Latin America challenge cotton
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The impact of global warming on cotton production, and the challenge of raising visibility of the fibre among consumers in Latin America were some of the issues tabled by industry executives this week.
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Tracking global warming trends? Think like a stockbroker
2013-10-02 15:35:48| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Ask a Wall Street analyst and all but the most extreme contrarians will tell you that over the long run, the market is going to go up. Sure, over the last century there have been some downturns, and some flat periods of little growth, but if you invested over the long haul you were virtually guaranteed to make money. Now consider the question: Is the planet warming? Ask a climate scientist and all but the most extreme contrarians will tell you that over the long run, the global surface temperature...
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Australia has a chance slow global warming down but will it take it?
2013-10-02 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While the world digests the IPCC's 5th assessment of our carbon emissions and changing climate, plans abound for an unprecedented coal export boom in Australia. In the remote, as yet untapped inland Galilee Basin region of central Queensland, the fuse is set to be lit on a carbon bomb. Nine huge open cut coalmines with lifespans of up to 90 years will produce a total of 330m tonnes of thermal coal each year, to be burnt in the power stations of India, China and any other country that still resorts...
IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think
2013-10-01 06:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The figure below from the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report compares the global surface warming projections made in the 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007 IPCC reports to the temperature measurements. IPCC AR5 Figure 1.4. Solid lines and squares represent measured average global surface temperature changes by NASA (blue), NOAA (yellow), and the UK Hadley Centre (green). The colored shading shows the projected range of surface warming in the IPCC First Assessment Report (FAR;...
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