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After the flood: climate change blamed for Himalayan tragedy
2013-10-13 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Before the flood, says Chandan Singh Rawat, who runs a ramshackle tea house perched above the mountain torrent of the upper Ganges, business was great. We didnt even have time to talk to people. But four months after flash floods swept down the Himalayan valleys of the Ganges tributaries in India, killing nearly 6,000 people and sweeping away roads and bridges, locals such as Mr Rawat have time on their hands and little source of income. We live from day to day, he says. Every year, tens...
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Climate change concerns loom at Arctic conference
2013-10-13 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: As the inaugural Arctic Circle conference got officially underway here Saturday, a specter loomed over the proceedings. The conference, which brings together policymakers, business leaders, researchers from across the world to discuss issues important to the Arctic, convened with messages from dignitaries of Iceland, Greenland, the United States, United Nations, Canada and Russia, and all of them shared a concern -- the outsized impact of climate change in the Arctic and what it means for far northern...
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Fighting climate change, with crowd funding and Google Hangouts
2013-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bay Guardian: A young San Francisco couple, Ryan Kushner and Amanda Ravenhill, are trying out a new approach to climate change activism that they hope will ultimately reach thousands of people via online videos and interactive web-based trainings. Called Hero Hatchery, the ambitious project launched earlier this week. Celebrity-status environmentalists such as Bill McKibben, head of 350.org, and Tim DeChristopher, who made headlines for throwing a monkey wrench into a Bureau of Land Management auction, will...
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Radical climate change within 34 years: Study
2013-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Earth may experience a radically different climate already within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study Wednesday that aims to bring the dangers of global warming into sharper focus. On current trends of greenhouse-gas emissions, 2047 will mark the year at which the climate at most places on Earth will shift beyond documented extremes, it said. This date is pushed back to 2069 under a scenario in which fossil-fuel burning emissions are stabilized, said an analysis of climate...
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The Deficit and Climate Change: Two Problems That Won't Go Away
2013-10-11 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Amid the dysfunction now paralyzing the federal government, here's some great news: The federal deficit has been falling dramatically. The most recent report shows that our current deficit is $200 billion dollars less than the Obama administration predicted just three months ago. In fact, since 2009, the deficit has been reduced more in percentage terms than in any four year period since the end of World War II. This means, of course, we can stop worrying about the federal budget and fully fund all...
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