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Defense Department to Congress: Global warming is a 'present security threat'
2015-07-30 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense has detailed what it views as its greatest challenges related to climate change. In a report to Congress, the Defense Department said that global warming poses a "present security threat, not strictly a long-term risk." See also: Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war The report, delivered to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday and publicly released Wednesday, further stated the Defense Department is "already observing...
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Global warming deal takes shape with latest UN draft
2015-07-27 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A global pact to fight climate change began to take shape after the United Nations published a new draft of a deal that envoys from 195 nations are working to seal at a year-end summit in Paris. The 88-page document is meant to organise the options that negotiators were grappling with at last month's round of discussions in Bonn, Germany. The paper, published last Friday on the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), includes a 19-page draft of the deal, slimmed down from...
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Pakistan: Climate change : Minister echoes global warming concerns
2015-07-27 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express Tribune: The present unsustainable global economic order has brutally overexploited natural resources to achieve so-called development, benefitted a few while plunging millions in the developing world into poverty and debt. This was stated by Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan while speaking to the media on Sunday. The world direly needs a whole new economic framework to cope with these challenges being aggravated further by the consequences of the global warming caused by the increasing trajectory...
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This Is What Global Warming Could Do to Our Coastline
2015-07-17 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNAInfo: If you thought flooding during and after Hurricane Sandy was bad, you haven't seen anything yet. A map built by the group Climate Control, based on data published in Science Magazine, shows the impact that two degrees Celsius of global warming could have on America's coastlines. If the data is accurate, the planet's warming will raise sea levels by at least 20 feet as early as 2200. That rise in sea level would submerge large tracts of land in all five boroughs. Neighborhoods in lower Manhattan,...
Global warming may fuel terrorism
2015-07-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned on Monday. In a report titled: Climate Change, A Risk Assessment, a global team of scientists, policy analysts and financial and military risk experts painted a grim picture of mankind's future on a much warmer planet. As rising temperatures and sea levels shrink areas of productive land, humans will have reasons...
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