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State Officials Warn Climate Impact Predictions may be Worsening
2014-01-12 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The situation looks grim for Rhode Island and the rest of the East Coast when it come to climate change. In fact, the outlook is getting worse, according to state officials. Grover Fugate, head of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the face of the state's climate research and planning, recently said climate change is happening faster than scientists can model it. At a Jan. 8 Statehouse conference, proponents of addressing climate change in Rhode Island divulged some...
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Year-Specific Predictions of Climate Change
2013-10-24 21:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: And now for some good news: Despite headlines, we can't be sure when our goose will be cooked. The recent release of the Working Group 1 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) documents the steady gains we have made in understanding the climate system in general and in our own role as a species in driving climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries. But the report also made note of some areas of climate science that remain poorly understood. One of these is what causes...
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Predictions of climate impacts on fisheries can be a mirage
2013-03-26 05:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the early 1940s, California fishermen hauled in a historic bounty of sardine at a time that set the backdrop for John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" novel. But by the end of the decade the nets came up empty and the fishery collapsed. Where did they all go? According to a new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the forces behind the sardine mystery are a dynamic and interconnected moving target. Publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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United Kingdom: Climate Change: Met Office Defends Predictions
2013-01-09 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sky News: The Met Office has been forced to hit back after its five-year weather forecast was seen to imply that global warming had "stalled". The weather forecaster originally explained global temperatures were still at record levels - and predicted to be above average - but that the rate of rise had slowed. "Global average temperature is expected to remain between 0.28°C and 0.59°C above the long-term average during the period 2013-2017, with values most likely to be about 0.43°C higher than average,"...
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