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Climate change wake-up call
2014-03-31 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dominion Post: A major report into climate change is a wake-up call New Zealand must heed, one of its main authors says. The second part of the fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report has just been released. It predicts a 2-4 degrees Celsius rise in average temperatures in New Zealand by the end of the century and warns of increased risk of wildfire, storms, floods, landslides and sea level rises. Professor Tim Naish, director of the Antarctic Research Centre at...
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Alarming Wake-Up Call From Brand New Report On Climate Change
2014-03-18 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January 2014 was the highest since 2007 and the fourth highest for January since reliable record keeping began in 1880. The evidence linking human activities to climate change is as strong as the data supporting the idea that smoking causes lung cancer, a new report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said on Tuesday. "Many people do not yet understand that there...
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Lac-Megantic train crash a wake-up call for U.S. rail safety
2014-03-11 10:19:11| Railroads - Topix.net
The mayor of Lac-Megantic, Que., Colette Roy-Laroche, stands next to Christmas trees in front of the town's church in early December 2013, one for each of the 47 victims of the train disaster last July.
Vt.'s Sen. Sanders to lead climate "wake-up" call
2014-03-09 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will help lead an overnight session of the Senate's Climate Action Task Force in what he terms a wake-up call on global warming. Sanders -- an Independent who is co-sponsor of a bill that would tax carbon and methane emissions -- will be joined by New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Maine Sen. Angus King and two dozen other task force members. The overnight session will take place on the Senate floor Monday night through Tuesday morning. Sanders says the overnight...
Sugar plan gives Australia a wake-up call
2014-03-06 07:30:59| Sugar Industry News
The average Australian would need to halve his or her sugar intake to comply with a new World Health Organisation proposal.
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