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Ignoring boreal forests could speed up global warming
2014-06-04 19:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity have caused global air and sea surface temperatures to rise approximately 0.8 Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since the beginning of the 20th century, contributing to a plethora of problems worldwide from rising sea levels to desertification. A new study published in Conversation Letters finds that global temperatures may start to increase even faster if more is not done to protect Earths boreal forests. Boreal forests, or taiga, are forests of cold-adapted...
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Poll: 'Huge Majority' of Americans Willing to Pay Price to Fight Global Warming
2014-06-04 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: Not only do a significant majority of Americans believe that state and federal governments should regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in order to stave off resulting global warming, according to a new poll, they're willing to pay a financial cost to help make that happen. On the same day as new rules by the Obama administration were made official by the Environmental Protection Agency, an ABC/Washington Post poll found that 7 out of 10 people--called a "huge majority"--agree that...
Intact Amazon forests show possible signs of global warming impact
2014-06-04 04:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change may be taking a hidden toll on intact rainforests in the heart of the Amazon, finds a new study based on 35 years of observations. The research, published in the journal Ecology, focused on the ecological impacts of fragmentation but unexpectedly found changes in the control forests. These shifts, which included faster growth and death rates of trees, increased biomass accumulation, and proliferation in vines, may be linked to rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere,...
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Turning point? U.S. and China announce major actions on global warming
2014-06-03 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Could 2014 be a turning point for efforts to slash global greenhouse gas emissions? Maybe: in less than 24 hours the world's two largest emitters of carbon dioxide announced plans to finally rein-in the gas most responsible for global warming. Yesterday, the Obama Administration announced long-awaited rules by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, based on 2005 levels. Less than 24 hours later, China announced it...
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A Paltry Start in Curbing Global Warming
2014-06-03 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey in Britain, uses a nifty back-of-the-envelope calculation to underscore the challenge of giving the worlds poor a shot at prosperity while preventing a global climate disaster. Lets accept, he proposes, that citizens of developing nations are entitled to become roughly as rich in 2050 as Europeans. Lets take note that the world will be home to more than nine billion people by then. What would it take, then, to prevent...
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