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John McCain mocks Obama for calling climate change a threat as Isis advances
2015-05-24 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Senator John McCain on Sunday attacked the president for citing climate change as a threat to national security, suggesting that the Obama administrations focus on environmental issues was detracting from the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. The comments by the Senate armed services committee chairman were part of a rotating blame game over the Memorial Day weekend about who is responsible for recent gains by Isis fighters, who last week took control of the ancient Syrian...
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Obama calls climate change an 'indisputable' security threat
2015-05-21 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama has argued for action on climate change as a matter of health, environmental protection and international obligation. On Wednesday, he added national security. Those who deny global warming are putting at risk the United States and the military sworn to defend it, he told cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Failure to act would be "dereliction of duty," their commander in chief said. He said climate change and rising sea levels jeopardize the readiness of U.S. forces...
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Changes in land use pose greater threat to aquatic diversity than climate change
2015-05-20 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For the first time, scientists at the Senckenberg Research Center for Biodiversity and Climate and the Research Institute Senckenberg in Gelnhausen have modeled the effects of land use changes on the species diversity in rivers and streams. Their results show that the loss of biodiversity is caused to a significantly higher degree by changes in land use practices than by climate change. In consequence, conservation concepts for this valuable ecosystem and the organisms that live in flowing water...
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Obama frames global warming as national security threat
2015-05-20 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is framing the challenges of climate change as a matter of national security that threatens to aggravate poverty and political instability around the globe and jeopardize the readiness of U.S. forces. "Make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country," the president says in excerpts of a commencement address prepared for delivery Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. "And so we need to act and we need to act now." The president...
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Climate change could be a threat to electricity supply in Western US
2015-05-19 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Droughts and high temperatures caused by climate change could play havoc with the electricity supply of the Western United States, say engineers in a study published in Nature Climate Change. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of America's electricity is generated by thermoelectric power stations -- facilities that use heat to create electricity, from burning coal to nuclear power. Many plant like this, however, rely on water for cooling, with these facilities accounting for 45 percent of water withdrawals...
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