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UN climate chief urges investors to bolster global warming fight
2014-01-15 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Institutional investors managing trillions of dollars should shift their portfolios away from fossil fuel investments toward cleaner energy sources to put a stop to the dangerous rise in global temperatures causing climate change, the United Nations' climate chief said on Wednesday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an investors conference at the United Nations that their investment decisions should reflect the latest scientific evidence...
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Fungi could help boost crops and slow global warming
2014-01-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If not for an underground love affair between the fungal and plant kingdoms, todays planet would be a far less hospitable place. Mycorrhizal fungi are critical for more varieties of crops than are bees nine out of 10 crops have roots that are encrusted with these fungal tentacles. The fungi rummage through soil, fetching water and nutrients and delivering them to the roots of crops and other plants, receiving carbon-rich sugars produced through photosynthesis in return. The fungi protect the...
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02.10: Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
2014-01-14 00:36:39| Powells Books Events Calendar
Windfall (Penguin Press) is a fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world. Journalist McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearly — as a market opportunity. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these forces a potential windfall. By letting climate change continue unchecked, we are choosing to adapt to a warming world. Containing the resulting surge will be big business; some will benefit, but much of the planet will suffer. Funk has investigated both sides, and what he has found will shock us all. To understand how the world is preparing to warm, Windfall follows the money.
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Cold Outside? Forecast Calls for Uptick in Global Warming Disbelief
2014-01-12 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In more than a decade of reporting on climate change I can say one thing with absolute certainty. When it's cold outside, like during this recent polar vortex in the U.S., people start thinking this whole global warming thing must be overblown. The opposite is also true. Which is why the next summer of El Nino is going to do more for action to combat climate change than any activist or scientific study. Don't believe me? A new social science study in the journal Nature Climate Change backs my...
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Scientists back David Cameron on weather link to global warming
2014-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Climate scientists have backed David Camerons statement that he very much suspects the recent extreme weather events Britain has suffered are linked to climate change. The prime ministers words in the House of Commons this week annoyed some Conservative MPs who are sceptical about man-made climate change. But leading climate scientists told a press briefing in London on Friday that abnormal weather, such as the succession of storms that made December one of the UKs wettest and windiest on...
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