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Climate Change May Put Power Grid at Risk in the West
2015-05-18 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The ravages of climate change could severely hurt the ability of utilities in the 11 Western states to generate power unless they climate proof their power grid using renewables and energy efficiency, something they are not prepared for, according to a new study. For nearly half of the Wests existing power plants, climate change could reduce their ability to produce electricity by up to 3 percent during an average summer and possibly up to nearly 9 percent during a decade-long drought, according...
Shell knows climate change is real, but it wants to drill Arctic anyway
2015-05-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A man of Ben van Beurdens power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers. When the chief executive of Shell rose to address an industry gathering in a London hotel, a respectful hush descended. Van Beurden, 57, rose from a modest background in the Netherlands to the top of a cut-throat, politically fraught sector that rarely finds itself out of the public firing line. The annual black-tie dinner at International Petroleum Week in February,...
Climate Change And Food Security: Coffee Farmers In Tanzania
2015-05-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, theyre planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable. Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling, Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzanias northern Kilimanjaro region, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news organization. I need fast-growing crops...
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'Disaster after disaster' hits Marshall Islands climate change kicks in
2015-05-18 08:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: They came and told us to evacuate to the next house, which is stronger, because there will be a flood. The tide went up to the front porch and I was scared because of the big waves, said 7-year-old Keslynna Myo Sibok, a resident of Majuro, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands -- a remote chain of 29 low-lying coral atolls and five islands that lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and has found itself on the front lines of climate change. Keslynna sat in the front yard of her...
Climate change campaigners finish fast
2015-05-17 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marlborough Express: Bill and Robbie McEwan who have ended their Climate Change sit-in at the Blenheim Band Rotunda after a week of fasting. The father and son pair were raising awareness of climate change. A father and son who fasted for seven days and nights in a call to action over climate change have ended their fast weak but resilient. Blenheim's Bill McEwan, 70, and his son Robbie McEwan were joined by around 50 supporters at a break-the-fast morning breakfast at the rotunda in Blenheim's town centre on Sunday....
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