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Victoria should brace for rising sea levels, more storms: climate change report

Victoria should brace for rising sea levels, more storms: climate change report | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
A risk assessment on climate change for the City of Victoria says it needs to start work now to prepare for rising sea levels, more storms, wetter winters and drier summers.
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Climate change will be slower than thought, study shows – or does it?

Climate change will be slower than thought, study shows – or does it? | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Graham Readfearn: New climate study just one step to understanding future climate change, but Australia is already feeling the heat
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The headlines have been screaming that climate change is slower. Graham Readfearn gives a more thoughtful analysis of what the study really shows.

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Global warming: Study helps quantify how much Alaska's melting glaciers contribute to sea level rise

Global warming: Study helps quantify how much Alaska's melting glaciers contribute to sea level rise | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Research aims to fine-tune sea-level rise projections By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — As part of a global study of melting glaciers and rising sea level, two University of Alaska Fairbanks geophysi...
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We need as much information as we can glean - and we need to act NOW.

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Curse or coincidence? Scientists study Tornado Alley's past and future

Curse or coincidence? Scientists study Tornado Alley's past and future | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Do tornadoes follow well-worn tracks? Where do the deadliest twisters hit? Will climate change make such storms worse?
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Clouds ‘Cool Earth Less Than Once Thought’ | Climate Central

Clouds ‘Cool Earth Less Than Once Thought’ | Climate Central | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
The ability of clouds to help cool the Earth appears to have been over-estimated, say researchers.
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Flooding threatens one in four London properties

Flooding threatens one in four London properties | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Almost £250bn worth of housing in capital at risk as flood defence budget cuts threaten homes and insurance policies across UK
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Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist

Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Prof James Hansen warns public not to be fooled by 'diversionary tactic' from deniers
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Researchers Don't 'Wine' About The Cold, Their Grapes Thrive : NPR

A dozen universities are collaborating on a sort of extreme winemaking project: How cold a climate can a grape survive and still make good wine?
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Warmer Springs Linked to Dwindling Snow in Rocky Mountains: Scientific American

Warmer Springs Linked to Dwindling Snow in Rocky Mountains: Scientific American | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Snow cover across the Rockies has been shrinking since 1980. This meltwater accounts for 80 percent of the annual water supply for more than 70 million people in the U.S.
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This has major implications for agriculture, as well as every other water use.

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Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine

Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
These delicate and stunning creatures are offering Smithsonian scientists a warning sign for the world's waters turning more acidic
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The photography of these strange and wonderful creatures is amazing.

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Australia bid to stop 'ocean fertilisation'

Australia bid to stop 'ocean fertilisation' | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Australia has launched a bid to stop the commercial use of a controversial ''geo-engineering'' technique that involves dumping iron into the ocean to counter the effects of man-made climate change.
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Market blinds us to dangers of climate change

Market blinds us to dangers of climate change | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Foremost reason: civilization built on fossil fuels
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With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear : NPR

With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear : NPR | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
By the end of the century, ocean levels could rise by 2 or 3 feet. That's enough to flood the colonists' first settlement at Jamestown, Va.
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Polar wander linked to climate change

Polar wander linked to climate change | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Melting ice in Greenland may have helped to shift the location of the North Pole.
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The shift is small but meaningful

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Everest: tourism and climate change provide new challenges

Everest: tourism and climate change provide new challenges | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
As the 60th anniversary of conquest looms, climbers and environmentalists fear new strains on the terrain and its people
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Glaciers are disappearing. Tourists are demanding cheap help and creating environmental chaos. 

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Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come?

Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come? | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
As extreme weather seems to accelerate globally, scientists believe events Down Under can help explain what to look for-and guard against.
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The hottest day I've experienced in Australia was 47 C. Walking outside, I swear I could feel my skin burn.

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Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research

Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached
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NBC News: Climate Change Is Putting Food Supply At Risk

Evidence is growing that the nation's food supply is being threatened as climate change causes adverse ripple effects for the things we drink and eat, according to NBC News.
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Don't worry, ladies. Guys will take care of this for us ;)
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Very reassuring ;-)
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Smaller Glaciers Boost Sea Level as Much as the Giants

Smaller Glaciers Boost Sea Level as Much as the Giants | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Studies show there's another ice reserve to worry about besides the vast Greenland & Antarctic ice sheets.
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Tar sands make climate change 'unsolvable': Hansen

Tar sands make climate change 'unsolvable': Hansen | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change 'unsolvable' said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming in the 1980s.
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'Overwhelming' consensus on man-made global warming, says review

'Overwhelming' consensus on man-made global warming, says review | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
A REVIEW of thousands of studies published over 21 years found "overwhelming" and growing consensus among scientists that humans are mostly to blame for global warming, its authors said today.
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The consensus has been overwhelming for quite a while, though you wouldn't know it by watching our governments.

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Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears

Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
The iconic Arctic mammals' limited immune system may put them at particular risk if new pathogens spread northwards as the world warms
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These beautiful creatures deserve better

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Son of Climate Science Pioneer Ponders A Sobering Milestone

Son of Climate Science Pioneer Ponders A Sobering Milestone | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Climate scientist Ralph Keeling has followed in the footsteps of his father, who pioneered the measurement of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Good interview with the son of an early and influential climate scientist.

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Living in fear: move to safer ground is going too slowly

Living in fear: move to safer ground is going too slowly | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Tensions are running high in an Alaskan village immediately threatened by climate change
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Climate refugees aren't something way off in the future. They are already among us.

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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest

Climate change may be baring Mount Everest | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found.
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These Crazy Maps Show The Unequal Cause And Effect Of Climate Change

These Crazy Maps Show The Unequal Cause And Effect Of Climate Change | Climate change challenges | Scoop.it
Climate change is a fundamentally unfair phenomenon. For one thing, the countries that have contributed most to atmospheric build-ups of CO2 won’t bear the brunt of the consequences.
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The power of graphics

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