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UN expert warns climate change happening now
2013-11-10 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Climate change is erasing jobs, choking water supplies and permanently shifting the way people live, a new report from the UN University has revealed. Climate expert Dr Koko Warner warns that action is needed now. The United Nations University has released the second volume of Pushed to the Limit, a study that examines evidence of loss and damage caused by climate change from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries. In the run up to the climate conference in Warsaw, Dr...
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Expert brings public health into climate change
2013-08-21 14:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Temperatures are intensifying. Sea levels are climbing. Wildfires are spreading. None of this is news to Dr. Linda Rudolph, a Bay Area expert on climate change. What worries her most, however, are the human health disasters that global warming may end up unleashing. As a former director at California's public health agency and now a leader at the Public Health Institute, an Oakland nonprofit, Rudolph has devoted herself to figuring out how state and local governments should handle the health...
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Climate Expert von Storch: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?
2013-06-20 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Climate experts have long predicted that temperatures would rise in parallel with greenhouse gas emissions. But, for 15 years, they haven't. In a SPIEGEL interview, meteorologist Hans von Storch discusses how this "puzzle" might force scientists to alter what could be "fundamentally wrong" models. SPIEGEL: Mr. Storch, Germany has recently seen major flooding. Is global warming the culprit? Storch: I'm not aware of any studies showing that floods happen more often today than in the past. I also...
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Climate science debate has cost precious time, expert warns
2013-06-17 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an "infantile" debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert. The commission, an independent body that advises the government on climate science, has updated its 2011 The Critical Decade study to analyse the latest findings on climate change and Australia's response to it. The report is likely to be the...
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Malawi: Want a Real Expert on Climate Change? Ask Those Worst-Hit
2013-04-10 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Back in 2010, farmers in northern Malawi were advised to stop growing local maize varieties and switch to faster-maturing hybrids, to protect them from a shortening rainy season. Now, less than three years later, the government is urging them to start planting indigenous varieties again, alongside the newer ones, because researchers have found the local maize more resilient to weather extremes. Such stories hint at the difficulty of adapting to changing conditions that can be very hard to predict....
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