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Global warming, El Nino may wither wheat crop
Posted by Economic Times: Prashant Krar on December 7th, 2015
Economic Times: CHANDIGARH: Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gases and El Nino are said to be taking a toll on the wheat crop as late planting in the hottest year on record is set to delay the harvest and severely hit farm yields, magnifying rural distress. The late onset of winter and exceptionally dry conditions after the weak monsoon have prompted late crop sowing by farmers.
They have suffered crop damage due to two consecutive failed monsoons and unseasonal rain and hailstorms in February and March,...
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Ice and the Sky: the cold truth about climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 7th, 2015
Guardian: Claude Lorius sits on a rocky outcrop and gazes pensively across a vast, white vista. Next to him a penguin patters past, hesitates and plops into the icy water. It is hard to tell who is most at home.
One of the most poignant moments in Luc Jacquet’s breathtaking documentary, Ice and the Sky (La Glace et le Ciel), it is a beautiful scene of quiet contemplation. But then Lorius, 83, has much to reflect on. Fresh-faced and eager, he set out during the International Geophysical Year, nearly 60 years...
Will Climate Change Break the Global Food System?
Posted by Huffington Post: David MacLennan on December 7th, 2015
Huffington Post: This commentary is co-authored by Carter Roberts, President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Extreme weather events scuttling harvests. Skyrocketing food prices causing famine for millions and driving multitudes into poverty. Governments toppling - again - in Pakistan and Ukraine. Massive floods driving millions of refugees from their homes in Bangladesh and putting pressure on neighboring India. Droughts devastating harvests in traditional bread baskets like the U.S. and Brazil. The E.U.,...
From Bangladesh flood map to Bank of England, ‘carbon bubble’ is born
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 7th, 2015
Reuters: Poring over a Bangladeshi flood map as a London financial analyst 12 years ago, Mark Campanale had no idea the moment would spawn a financial concept powerful enough to rivet central bankers, anger oil moguls and fuel a grassroots movement to get investors to dump their fossil fuel holdings.
The map was in the prospectus of a British firm seeking to raise money to build a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh. Not only was Campanale angry that a company would pump more carbon emissions into the...