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Australia: Climate change to blame for summer of extreme heat and damaging floods, report says
2013-03-03 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: CATASTROPHIC bushfires, damaging rain and the most intense heatwave on record this summer are just a taste of what climate change will bring, a new report says. Climate Commissioner Will Steffen said the extreme weather of 2012/13 was climate change in action, and more events are on the way. In his Climate Commission report, Angry Summer, released today, Prof Steffen also said Queensland's one-in-100-year flood was one part of a "very, very unusual summer". "We've been storing extra heat...
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Minnesota moose population plummets, activists blame climate
2013-02-09 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The population of moose in northeastern Minnesota dropped by 35 percent since last year, prompting state officials to cancel this year's fall hunt and conservationists to blame warming temperatures for the massive creature's decline. "The state's moose population has been in decline for years but never at the precipitous rate documented this winter," Tom Landwehr, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources commissions, said in a statement Wednesday. This year's drop in population continues...
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Paper: Environmentalists to blame for climate change inaction
2013-01-16 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Caller: Global warming protesters met by freezing weather and snow Environmentalists, Democrats say climate report demands swift action on climate change Environmental groups urge Obama to use executive authority to fight climate change Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues A Harvard academic paper argues that environmental groups are to blame for the United States` inaction in combating climate change, saying that those groups underestimated Republican opposition. Harvard scholar Theda...
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La Nia And Climate Change To Blame For Record Temperatures, Says San Diego Researcher
2013-01-09 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPBS: Temperatures across the United States in 2012 were the warmest on record, according to NOAA's State Of The Climate report. Last year was 3.2 degrees warmer in the United States than the average for the entire 20th century. California had its 4th warmest year on record, said David Pierce, climate researcher with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "The 4th warmest year in a 110-year record is pretty warm," he said. Widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S....