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Climate Change Implicated in a Specific Extreme Weather Event
Posted by National Geographic: Tim Profeta on February 4th, 2016
National Geographic: Scientists have warned that even a few degrees rise in global temperatures can lead to increasingly severe storms. Now an international team of climate scientists has linked man-made climate change to historic flooding that hit the south of England in the winter of 2013–2014. It’s the first time a peer-reviewed research paper has connected climate change to a specific flooding event.
In an article published in Nature Climate Change, the team said that their climate model simulations showed that...
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Comments Off on Climate Change Implicated in a Specific Extreme Weather EventObama Shares Plan for Action on Climate Change
Posted by National Geographic: Tim Profeta on June 27th, 2013
National Geographic: In a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined a long-awaited executive strategy--comprised mostly of initiatives already underway--to curb greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
“As a president, as a father and as an American, I’m here to say, ‘We need to act,’” Obama said. “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
The plan includes measures previously speculated to be a part of the...