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Environmental group wants to name hurricanes for global warming 'deniers'
2013-08-27 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The environmental group 350.org has launched a new campaign called Climate Name Change that proposes to revise to how hurricanes are named: call them, the groups says, after policymakers who say that humans are not to blame for global warming. This will save the Katrinas and Sandys of the world from the injustice of having their names attached to major disaster, the group says. And, as a bonus, it will produce some peculiar weather reports. Rick Perry leaves trail of death, scrolls a line...
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Activists propose naming hurricanes after politicians who deny climate change
2013-08-27 07:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Environmental activists are petitioning the World Meteorological Organization (WHO) to start naming storms after policy makers who deny human's role in driving climate change. Campaigners with 350.org, an advocacy organization that is pushing to reduce carbon dioxide levels from the current 400 ppm to 350 ppm, have launched ClimateNameChange.org to rally support for their proposal to revise the WHO's naming system for tropical storms. Currently hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons receive randomly...
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Al Gore claims reporter botched his quote about category 6 hurricanes
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Al Gores staff says The Washington Post mangled a quote that made the former vice president the object of derision. The paper quoted Gore as claiming that a new "category 6" is being added to the hurricane rating system -- but he claims to have said something different, and the Post isnt standing by the quote as it appeared in its interview transcript. On Wednesday the Post published an in-depth interview on climate change with Gore that quoted him saying: The extreme events are more extreme....
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Did the Clean Air Act unleash Atlantic hurricanes?
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Emerging research theorizes the decline of polluting sulfur-based particles in the atmosphere, which block sunlight and cool the Earth beneath, have allowed Atlantic hurricane activity to increase in recent decades. Could it be our efforts to clean the air have, paradoxically, made it more stormy? One of the great success stories of U.S. environmental policy is the implementation of the Clean Air Act, and the subsequent dramatic decreases in atmospheric pollutants. Concentrations of sulfur...
Loss of natural buffers could double number of people at risk from hurricanes
2013-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific America: If the United States lost its shield of natural coastal defenses, about twice as many Americans would be exposed to dangerous storm surges and other hurricane threats, according to new research. Protective buffers like mangroves, wetlands and oyster beds currently buffer about 67 percent of the nation's seashores from ocean forces like wind and waves. If they disappear, more than a million additional people and billions of dollars in property value will be vulnerable to damage, says a paper published...
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