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Americans’ Concern About Climate Change Is Growing
Posted by ThinkProgress: None Given on March 18th, 2016
ThinkProgress: If you are concerned about global warming, you are part of a growing majority that hadn`t been this large since 2008, a new Gallup poll has found.
In fact, 64 percent of adults say they are worried a "great deal" or "fair amount" about global warming, up from 55 percent at this time last year. According to the poll, concerns about global warming have increased among all party groups since 2015, though concerns remain much higher among Democrats than Republicans and Independents.
In March, 40...
‘A tipping point’: record number of Americans see global warming as threat
Posted by Guardian: Oliver Milman on March 18th, 2016
Guardian: A record number of Americans believe global warming will pose a threat to their way of life, new polling data shows, amid strengthening public acceptance that rising temperatures are being driven by human activity.
“I think a shift in public opinion and consciousness has been underway for several years now,” Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian.
A spokesman for 350 Action, the political arm of climate activist group 350.org, said meanwhile...
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Comments Off on ‘A tipping point’: record number of Americans see global warming as threatIndonesia hustles to preempt new round of haze-causing fires
Posted by Mongabay: None Given on March 18th, 2016
Mongabay: Local governments, environmental agencies, emergency services and the military are working across Indonesia’s fire-prone areas as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo tries to minimize this year’s haze in what could be the largest challenge of his presidency. In Singapore, politicians and NGOs have called for more preemptive action as the prospect of more fires in the coming weeks appears increasingly likely. “You need to do that because with three, four months of haze now in Singapore, it actually seems...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Indonesia hustles to preempt new round of haze-causing firesWater flow in Mediterranean rivers will fall 34 percent by the end of the century
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 18th, 2016
PhysOrg: The rising global average temperature induced by climate change will cause regions such as the Mediterranean Basin to become drier and more arid, in turn directly affecting the availability of water. A study has revealed that river flows in this zone will decrease in headwaters, on average, by as much as 34 percent by the year 2100-a figure that will reach 50 percent during the autumn months.
2015 was the warmest year on record: The global...
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