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Alberta cities, towns brace for climate change costsa
2015-11-25 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: As Albertans glance at the details about how the province's new climate change policy will increase home heating costs and the price at the pumps, financial officers inside city and town halls are busy working their calculators and spreadsheets to get a sense of the looming impact. The bigger the town or city, the heftier the blow. "We are a very large business with 20,000 employees," said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. "We're still analysing what that means to us as an organization." The...
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Syria war linked to climate change: Britains Prince Charles
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Britain's Prince Charles, who is to give a speech at the start of the UN climate summit in Paris next week, said in an interview out on Monday that the war in Syria could be linked to global warming. "There's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years,' Charles told SkyNews. He said the drought meant that "huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land'. "Some of us were...
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Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
2015-11-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Over the past several months news of widespread wildfires has coursed through the media from every corner of the world. In the United States, the wildfire season is now two months longer than it was 100 years ago. In 2015 alone, over 9.3 million acres of land have burned in the U.S. (the 2nd largest amount on record) and with current elevated fire risk in California and Texas (as of 11/12/15) that number seems likely to rise by the end of the year. The manifold economic costs of fires to land and...
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How Could Paris Climate Talks Change Africas Future?
2015-11-23 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: On a hot morning in mid-November, giraffes and zebras mingled near a watering hole. Yet elsewhere in this parched game reserve, home to lions and leopards, the scene is far from placid. In what's normally the summer "wet" season, a severe drought has dried up several dams. So territorial males are fighting, literally, for the little water that's left. "It's never been like this before," said senior park ranger Solomzi Radebe, who's been giving tours here for 15 years. Unless a lot of rain falls...
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PG&E Named To Prestigious Climate Change Disclosure List
2015-11-23 02:43:59| pollutiononline Home Page
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been named to the S&P Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) by the CDP, an international not-for-profit that represents 822 institutional investors with $95Tin assets
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