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Carbon tax sought to curb global warming
2014-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courier-Journal: A national tax on anything that produces carbon emissions - gasoline, airplanes and coal-burning power plants - is the goal of the new Kentucky chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby, an international nonprofit group seeking to curb global warming. The tax would be revenue neutral, said Zaurie Zimmerman, an architect and Louisville native who spoke Saturday at the Kentucky chapter's first meeting. That means any collections would be returned in monthly payments to households, she said. As a result,...
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Scientists find evidence of long-term warming inside Greenland's ice sheet
2014-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis on the temperature, structure and composition of the hard-packed snow that covers that island, conditions deep beneath the surface were fairly consistent: white, firm, cold and dry. If you could imagine cutting a wall of Styrofoam, thats what it was like, said Benson, now a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Related: How dust...
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EU Study shows huge costs of global warming inaction
2014-06-28 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Inaction on climate change is probably the costliest option for the European Union, which could not only see direct costs of EUR190 billion, but also a net loss of 1.8 percent of its current GDP. Premature mortality accounts for more than half of the overall welfare losses (EUR120 billion), followed by impacts on coasts (EUR42 billion) and agriculture (EUR18 billion). "No action is clearly the most expensive solution of all. Why pay for the damages when we can invest in reducing our climate impacts...
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Senators Take Bipartisan Action To Reduce Pollutants Responsible For 40 Percent Of Global Warming
2014-06-26 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: On Thursday, two senators introduced a bipartisan proposal to address climate change. Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) Super Pollutants Act of 2014 will reduce short-lived climate pollutants. These pollutants are responsible for around 40 percent of global warming, making them the second-largest contributor after carbon dioxide, which is accounts for about 55 percent of the global greenhouse effect. Known as super pollutants, because they are much more potent than carbon...
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Carbon neutrality has failed now our only way out of global warming is to go carbon negative
2014-06-26 20:32:56| Extremetech
A new report highlights the fact that we're headed for an inexorable rise in temperatures -- so what else can be done to avoid catastrophic change?
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