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March of the Penguins director to close Cannes with climate change film Ice and the Sky
2015-05-17 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: March Of The Penguins enraptured audiences worldwide and won its French director an Oscar. Now, Luc Jacquet is back with another film set in Antarctica one that promises to have a very different impact on cinema-goers, even if it does still feature some penguins. The director has spoken of his trip to the continent to film the documentary Ice and the Sky about Claude Lorius the man credited with discovering global warming and how shocked he was to see the effects of climate change at first...
Link between unseasonal rains, disasters & climate change: Is India playing ostrich?
2015-05-17 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April , geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the opinion that the pressure that falls upon the underlying tectonic plates on account of excess rainfall and its ebb and flow in the river deltas of India and Bangladesh could have triggered the earthquake in the neighbouring country or at the least hastened its occurrence. Speaking to Newsweek, University College London's...
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Climate change helped to reduce ozone levels, study shows
2015-05-17 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers at the University of Houston have determined that climate change -- in the form of a stronger sea breeze, the result of warmer soil temperatures -- contributed to the drop in high-ozone days in the Houston area. Robert Talbot, professor of atmospheric chemistry, said that also should be true for coastal regions globally. The researchers describe their findings in a paper published this week in the journal Atmosphere. In addition to Talbot, they include first author Lei Liu, a doctoral...
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Canada: New climate change targets don't address oilsands
2015-05-16 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Kathleen Wynne calling for more than Ottawa's 'nebulous notion' of emissions targets Canada sets carbon emissions reduction target of 30% by 2030 How Canada's provinces are tackling greenhouse gas emissions Rachel Notley and Alberta NDP offer few details on environmental plans Canada announced new greenhouse gas reduction targets on Friday, pledging to cut emissions by 30 per cent over the next 15 years, but the plan says nothing about reining in the pollution from Alberta's oilsands. "What...
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House Republicans scrap climate change preparedness proposal
2015-05-16 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: House Republicans on Friday nixed legislation by a Dallas Democrat that would have asked certain agencies to take weather, water availability and climate change into account in their strategic plans. The bill had bipartisan support in committee, but at the start of the vote Rep. Ron Simmons, R-Carollton, alerted members that the House GOP caucus opposed the measure. That vote failed 47-84, mostly along party lines. In an interview Friday after the vote, Simmons said the caucus wants to make...
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