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Did Climate Change Cause Typhoon Haiyan?
2013-11-12 03:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: As the Philippines assesses the havoc caused by super-typhoon Haiyan, which according to some reports killed as many as 10,000 people, speculation is heating up as to whether the disaster might be a manifestation of climate change. Speaking today at the first day of UN climate talks in Warsaw, the head of the Philippines delegation, Yeb Sano, said he will stop eating until negotiators make "meaningful" progress. But can the devastating storm be linked to the changing global climate? Nature wades...
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Did Climate Change Intensify Supertyphoon Haiyan?
2013-11-12 00:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: At the UN climate talks in Poland, Yeb Sano, the head of the Philippines delegation has announced he will refrain from eating until participants make "meaningful" progress. In his address, Sano linked the terrible devastation in the Philippines after Supertyphoon Haiyan to climate change. "What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness, the climate crisis is madness. We can stop this madness right here in Warsaw." The images trickling back from the Philippines...
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Report on climate change depicts a planet in peril
2013-11-11 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change will disrupt not only the natural world but also society, posing risks to the world's economy and the food and water supply and contributing to violent conflict, an international panel of scientists says. The warnings came in a report drafted by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 29-page summary, leaked and posted on a blog critical of the panel, has been distributed to governments around the world for review. It could change before it is released...
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Administration Creates Climate Change Task Force
2013-11-11 20:50:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC The administration is establishing a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. read more
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Typhoon Haiyan & climate change Q&A
2013-11-11 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Is typhoon Haiyan linked to climate change? As the devastating storm has only just happened, it is too soon for any research to have been done on whether global warming influenced typhoon Haiyan. But there are good reasons for expecting that it has (see below). Furthermore, the tools exist to determine how much climate change may have intensified the typhoon. They have already been used on other extreme weather events, giving a clear scientific answer that climate change had dramatically increased...
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