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Idea of slow climate change in Earth's past misleading
2015-11-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In order to predict how today's ecosystems will react to increasing temperatures over the course of global warming, palaeobiologists study how climate change happened in Earth's history and what the consequences were. In order to compare the events of the past with current changes researchers need data on the scope of the changes. What was the speed with which temperatures increased or decreased? What was the magnitude of the change in temperatures? Until now, the general consensus has been that...
Fact check: Republicans crazy debate claims about climate change and energy
2015-11-11 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In the fourth Republican presidential debate, hosted by the Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday night, viewers finally got to hear some discussion of energy policy and the Clean Power Plan, President Obamas major effort to curb carbon emissions. Too bad it was totally misleading. Fox Business host and debate moderator Maria Bartiromo kicked off this aspect of the debate with the following question addressed to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.): Senator Paul, you were one of 15...
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Popes call for action on climate change has shifted US views
2015-11-10 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: When the leader of the world`s 1.2 billion Catholics issued his call to action on climate change in June, observers wondered whether this would move the needle in the public debate. A survey of people in the US released late last week suggests that it has. Some 17 per cent of overall respondents and 35 per cent of Catholic respondents said they were influenced by Francis`s message that climate change is a crucial moral issue. The percentage of Catholics who said they were "very worried" about...
Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
2015-11-09 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A comprehensive new study commissioned by Brazils government predicts severe drought and crop failures due to climate change by 2040. Brazil now gets 78% of its electricity from hydropower, but decreased rainfall could cut river flows by 38 to 57% to the nations four biggest existing hydropower plants, sharply decreasing energy generation. Reduced water flows to proposed dams in the Tapajós basin, as well as to the gigantic, under construction Belo Monte dam, could make hydroelectric power...
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Efforts to combat climate change rise in China as public awareness drops
2015-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As Chinese officials are gearing up for the next round of international climate change negotiations in Paris next month, a new survey has found fewer people in the country are concerned about global warming. The survey, issued yesterday by Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Pew Research Center, shows that 18 percent of respondents in China say climate change is a "very serious problem," much lower than the global average of 54 percent. Similarly, while 40 percent of people around the world are...
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