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In climate debate, skeptical Congress is a world apart
2015-12-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Paris talks had just reached the halfway point when a small band of climate skeptics made their stand at a hotel on the opposite side of town. With charts and slides, the group repeated a claim that is familiar to Washington but wildly out of sync with the discussions here: Man-made global warming is a fiction. To limit CO2 emissions is not only wasteful but also counterproductive, Fred Singer, a Virginia physicist and longtime critic of the scientific consensus on climate change, told the...
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World Leaders Scramble to Finalize Historic Climate Change Deal
2015-12-11 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: World leaders are meeting in Paris to finalize a historic climate deal that calls on industrialized nations to cut emissions in an effort to slow the effects of climate change. Government officials are now scrambling to get a deal done after Friday's original deadline passed. Who are the players? The number of countries participating in talks totals 186. The worlds biggest offenders if carbon emissions China, the United States, the European Union and India -- are working on the draft deal....
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World powers lead frenetic final push for climate accord
2015-12-11 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World powers led a frenetic final push Friday to seal a UN accord aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, as sleep-deprived envoys battled in Paris over trillion-dollar disputes blocking a deal. The 195-nation conference in Paris had been scheduled to wrap up on Friday, delivering a historic agreement that would brake global warming and ease its impacts. But weary negotiators braced themselves for a third straight round of all-night haggling after ministers wrestled with a myriad of...
Flowcrete Americas to Focus on Coatings Applications at the World of Concrete Conference
2015-12-11 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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The world is waking up to the big financial risks of global warming
2015-12-11 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A European and an American walk into their local bank. Each has a savings account. The banks have the same antiseptic feel, their cash machines make the same robotic moves. There is one fundamental difference between the two, however how they account for the vulnerability of their assets to climate change. Thats a point thats been made by a string of financial executives, regulators, and political figures over the past week of climate negotiations in Paris. That includes Mark Carney, head of...
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