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Climate change and extreme weather linked to high pressure Greenland
2016-04-27 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: Greenland is one of the fastest-warming regions of the world, according to climate change experts at the University of Sheffield. New research, led by Professor Edward Hanna from the University's Department of Geography, has identified changes in weather systems over Greenland that have dragged unusually warm air up over the western flank of Greenland's Ice Sheet. These weather systems are also linked to extreme weather patterns over...
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Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years
2016-04-26 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Lake Suwa sits in the Kino Mountains of central Japan, in a region sometimes called the Japanese Alps. When the lake freezes over, daily temperature changes cause the ice to expand and contract, cracking the surface and forcing it upward into a ridge.* Legend has it that the ridge, called the omiwatari, is formed by the feet of the Shinto gods as they cross the lake. Every year since at least 1443, the priests who live at the shrine on the edge of Lake Suwa have carefully recorded the date the ridge...
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Switzerland signs Paris climate agreement
2016-04-26 19:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NYSE Post: "Last December in Paris, the worldwide community adopted the world's first universal climate agreement", United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at the UN's headquarters in NY. The Paris Agreement sets several long-term climate goals, including holding average temperatures below a two degree Celsius rise from pre-industrial levels, pursuing efforts to limit this to a 1.5 degree threshold, peaking global emissions as soon as possible, and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. As the...
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CNN Viewers See Far More Fossil Fuel Advertising Than Climate Reporting
2016-04-26 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: CNN aired almost five times as much oil industry advertising as climate change-related coverage in the one-week periods following the announcements that 2015 was the hottest year on record and February 2016 was the most abnormally hot month on record. Specifically, CNN aired 23.5 minutes of American Petroleum Institute ads during its morning, afternoon and primetime coverage over those two weeks, compared to just five minutes of coverage about climate change or the temperature records. That disparity...
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Maritime infrastructure: navigating a changing climate
2016-04-26 11:26:00| Ship Technology
The World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIANC) has devised a new initiative dedicated to help the inland and maritime navigation infrastructure sector respond to climate change, marking a step-change in the sectors efforts to
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