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Global climate deal likely to enter into force in 2016: study
2016-08-05 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A global agreement on climate change looks likely to enter into force this year, a study showed on Friday, making it harder for Republican Donald Trump to pull out if he wins the U.S. presidency. Countries accounting for 54 percent of greenhouse gas emissions have signaled intent to ratify this year, according to the tally of national pledges by the Marshall Islands which is a strong backer of the plan agreed in Paris in December. That is just a fraction short of the required 55 percent of...
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Philippines: Climate change a public health threat, global group says
2016-07-30 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Standard: HEALTH and environmental advocates came together to urge the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to come up with a cohesive and responsive health strategy that recognizes climate change as a threat to public health. In a forum organized by international environmental health group Health Care Without Harm-Asia and the Laguna Lake Development Authority, representatives from the Climate Change Commission, Philippine Heart Center, Philippine College of Physicians and civil society emphasized...
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Global climate emergency declared after jet stream crosses equator
2016-07-02 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inhabit: A prominent climate scientist has declared a "global climate emergency" after observing the jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere crossing the equator and mixing with the jet stream in the Southern Hemisphere. Paul Beckwith, a geography professor at the University of Ottawa, wrote in a blog post that this behavior is new and "indicates that climate system mayhem is ongoing." If the merging of the jet streams continues, it could disrupt the seasons, threatening the food supply chain and causing "massive...
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New Climate Change and Global Warming Records Unprecedented
2016-06-20 06:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate scientists are stunned at the latest findings that suggest the previous month May was the 13th month in a row to break previously held temperature records. Apart from the soaring heat recorded in February and March, alarm bells are ringing continuously in the form of extreme weather events, ranging from vanishing Arctic sea ice, droughts in India, the vast bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and flash floods in the UK and in Paris. "It is in my view highly unlikely that we would be...
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Antibiotic Resistance Requires Global Response Similar to AIDS, Climate Change
2016-06-12 03:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Addressing antibiotic resistance will require a global political response similar to the way the world has reacted to climate change or HIV / AIDS, Sweden's Minister of Public Health Gabriel Wikstrom, told IPS recently. "(These problems) began with a small group of experts discussing and trying to warn the rest of us and it was not until it was politically addressed that it really became an issue that was solvable." "Of course (with antibiotic resistance) we have many technical issues still...
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