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Green energy surges to record levels
2016-06-01 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: New solar, wind and hydropower sources were added in 2015 at the fastest rate the world has yet seen, a study says. Investments in renewables during the year were more than double the amount spent on new coal and gas-fired power plants, the Renewables Global Status Report found. For the first time, emerging economies spent more than the rich on renewable power and fuels. Over 8 million people are now working in renewable energy worldwide. For a number of years, the global spend on renewables...
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High levels of pesticides found in food imported to UAE from India
2016-06-01 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bing: Excessive levels of pesticides have reportedly been found in some fruit and vegetables imported from India. Produce had levels of pesticide that exceeded permitted limits in accordance with international standards, the Indian agricultural export development authority has been told, following inspections by the Ministry for Climate Change and Environment. It means exporters will now have to carry out new pesticide residue tests on chili peppers, mangoes and cucumbers before they can be approved...
Lake Meads Low Levels Wrongly Blamed on Climate Change
2016-05-31 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Breitbart: Whenever there is a new record set, whether rain, hurricane, drought, etc., those in the climate change alarmist camp seem to be quick to point to global warming as the cause and make more dire predictions regarding the future. Such is the case with Lake Mead. On May 20, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that the nation's largest reservoir reached an all-time low. The current level slipped below the previous record set in June 2015. Despite reports of the mismanagement of the important...
Why scientists are amazed at oilsands smog levels
2016-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it. In fact the tarsands, already the largest source of climate disrupting greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, have a new grim moniker: "one of the largest sources of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosols in North America." Researchers...
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7 monuments, cities world treasures could lose rising sea levels
2016-05-27 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: 7 monuments, cities and world treasures we could lose to rising sea levels These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years. Every year the worldwide sea level rises about 3 mm. That doesnt sound like much, just a little over a 1/10 of an inch, but even that small rise spread out over the entire ocean is a lot of water. Multiply that over years and decades, factor in an increased rate of rise (thanks to our growing addiction...
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