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US Senators detail a climate science "web of denial" but the impacts go well beyond their borders
2016-07-12 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: By the middle of this week, about 20 Democratic Senators in the US will have stood up before their congress to talk about the fossil fuelled machinery of climate science denial. The Senators are naming the fossil fuel funders, describing the machinery and calling out the characters that make up a web of denial. The web is so big, because it has so much to protect, said the Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who bookended the first evening of speeches. The senate heard how fossil...
UK must take urgent action on climate change, warn government advisers
2016-07-12 05:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Live News: The impacts of climate change are already being felt in the UK and urgent action is required to address the risks. The warning from the Committee on Climate Changes (CCC) Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) follows more than three years of work involving hundreds of leading scientists and experts. Its 2,000-page report states 14 out of the 15 hottest years on record have already occurred globally since 2000. It warns changes to the UK climate are likely to include periods of too much or too...
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Drought to drown: Climate change is hitting MP hard
2016-07-12 03:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: From bone dry to flooded - all the districts of Madhya Pradesh which were either experiencing drought or facing seriously deficient rainfall are now flooded. Take the example of Damoh in the Bundelkhand region of MP, about 300 km from Bhopal. It faced three successive droughts, its inhabitants had to travel miles to fetch water, several farmers committed suicide and crops had gone dry. On July 6, the same Damoh received seven inches of rainfall in seven hours flat, and got flooded. Till Monday,...
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Climate change: Advisers warn of climate change domino effect
2016-07-12 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change could have a domino effect on key infrastructure in the UK, government advisers have warned. In a 2,000-page report, the Climate Change Committee says flooding will destroy bridges - wrecking electricity, gas and IT connections carried on them. The committee also warns that poor farming means the most fertile soils will be badly degraded by mid-century. And heat-related deaths among the elderly will triple to 7,000 a year by the 2050s as summer temperatures rise. The UK...
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Bangladesh approves law on agri-research amid changing climate patterns
2016-07-12 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Next: Bangladeshi government on Monday approved a draft law aiming at capacity building of the institutions related to researches on agriculture, officials said. The cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave go ahead to the draft of The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (Bari) Bill, 2016 at a meeting, said Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam. He said Bari will run necessary core researches on checking the adverse impacts of climate change, discovering new varieties of crops...
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