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Adopting the European approach of ‘more time off, less stuff’ could help mitigate climate change
Recently released research finds that significant reductions in carbon emissions are possible through reducing work hours, and that could help to reduce climate change. The paper, Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change, by David Rosnick of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), finds that eight to 22 per centUniversity of Winnipeg geography professor predicts Manitoba climate will be more like Nebraska’s within a few decades, including weeks of plus 30 C summer days
Hurricane Sandy and the devastating Midwest drought have convinced many Americans that climate change is real, and Prairie residents may soon have reason to feel likewise, says a University of Winnipeg geography professor. “We are in climate change central in this part of North America,” Danny Blair said in a recent presentation at Ag Days.Extreme rainfall, heat waves and increased pollen-induced allergies are to be expected as climate change unfolds
Reuters / Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by man-made global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said March 25. Scientists at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme rainfall and heat waves to global
