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Carbon price vital for success of UN 2015 climate summit de Boer
2013-10-01 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Carbon needs to be priced at US$ 150 per tonne if governments are serious about avoiding dangerous levels of climate change, the UNs former chief climate envoy has warned. Yvo de Boer says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes latest assessment is a wake-up call that should underpin political efforts to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. If you put the climate agenda in a big pot and boil it for four days, what youre left with is the need to put a price on carbon, he told...
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It's vital that business acts on the IPCC's warnings
2013-09-27 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the long-awaited IPCC scientific assessment of climate change is unveiled, in its full horror, it is worth remembering that neuroscientists and psychologists tell us we have a very worrying collective tendency for blindness to the kind of risks that can crash economies and imperil civilisations. In this respect, the shocking history of the financial crisis surprises them not a bit. Big Energy is repeating the failing, and not just in their undermining of a stable climate. They are guilty of...
Will Obsolescence End the Working Life of your Vital System?
2013-09-26 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
“The British are coming!” was being shouted all over Boston more than 200 years ago, and as a direct result, you now are the world’s only superpower. Well the British are back again in the form of David Purdie Associates LLC (DPA) now located in Florida. David has chosen to bring the best of what he was offering in Britain for almost 30 years and introduce it here. DPA LLC is an American company with an American owner, but with some excellent ideas and skills brought from ...
Addressing Carbon Pollution from Power Plants Is Vital for Avoiding Catastrophic Climate Change
2013-09-20 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Future U.S. power suppliers will need to limit their carbon pollution, thanks to new standards announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The proposed emissions standards for new power plants are an important measure in implementing the Presidents Climate Action Plan (announced in June) to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate global warming. EPAs announcement comes against the backdrop of our deepening understanding of the science of climate change. It also...
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The Vital Long View in Tracking Diminishing Arctic Sea Ice
2013-09-18 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: With the annual pullback of Arctic Ocean sea ice at an end, its clear that this years retreat is nowhere near the satellite-era record set in 2012, but its also clear that there is still a long-term trajectory toward a largely open-water Arctic in summers in coming decades. The image above is from The Cryosphere Today, a valuable Website maintained by William Chapman and others at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The National Snow and Ice Data Center has not quite officially called...
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