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MIT finds tectonic collisions had major impact on climatic shifts
2016-04-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MIT: For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has remained on a fairly even keel, with some dramatic exceptions: Around 80 million years ago, the planet's temperature plummeted, along with carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The Earth eventually recovered, only to swing back into the present-day ice age 50 million years ago. Now geologists at MIT have identified the likely cause of both ice ages, as well as a natural mechanism for carbon sequestration. Just prior to both periods, massive...
U.S. Mayors Curbing Greenhouse Gases And Adapting Cities To Climatic Events, According To 282-City Survey To Be Released Earth Day
2014-04-21 07:30:15| pollutiononline Home Page
The U.S. Conferenceof Mayors (USCM) will release a mayoral survey ofactions taken bycities throughout the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gases and adapt city infrastructure and systems to climatic events
Slum Dwellers Face Climatic Disasters
2014-04-06 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: Millions of people living in the shantytowns of the developing worlds mega-cities will be among the most-vulnerable groups feeling the brunt of climate change in the coming decades, according to a just-released report from UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new technical study predicts that tidal surges, heat waves and water shortages could hit Manila, Mumbai and over 100 other such cities in developing nations, precipitating potential disease epidemics, climate experts say. ...
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Australia Must Cut Emissions 40% by 2020 Avoid Dramatic Climatic Shifts
2013-12-02 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia must drastically increase its emissions reduction target to 40% by 2020 to avoid "almost unimaginable social, economic and ecological consequences' from climate change, a new book penned by leading scientists and economists, including Ross Garnaut, has warned. The book, Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World, sets out a series of stark scenarios facing the country should global temperatures rise by 4C above the pre-industrial average. By 2100, annual rainfall in...
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Climatic tipping points, stories about our possible future
2013-10-19 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How does one tell the most important story of our time--the emergence of our great Climate Disruption--without boring one's audience to tears, but at the same time, not resorting to over-hyped spinning of the science? "Tipping Points", a landmark 6-part TV series that begins airing at 9 pm EDT Saturday, October 19 on The Weather Channel, aims to do just that. "Tipping Points" follows a group of preeminent scientists as they venture off the grid to explore the perilous tipping points making our weather...
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