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Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts
2013-12-03 23:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Unless significant, steady reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels begin extremely soon, the Earth might be much closer to potentially catastrophic warming than is widely believed. So argues climatologist James Hansen of the Columbia University Earth Institute and an international team of colleagues in a new analysis published today in the journal PLOS One. Their paper further underscores other recent studies showing that even small delays in shrinking the industrial...
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An Update Risks of Abrupt Jolts from Global Warming
2013-12-03 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences published Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptive jolts. The most important finding, in a way, was that this was an area sorely in need of intensified research. Most of the monsters behind the door, to use an apt phrase from Stephen W. Pacala of Princeton, were plausible rather than probable. There were signs theyd escaped before...
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EU official: U.N. needs global warming answer by 2015
2013-11-25 00:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: After another U.N. climate conference gave only modest results, European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says the process needs to provide a "substantial answer" to global warming in two years to remain relevant. Even if it succeeds, it's worth reconsidering whether the international confabs need to be held every year, and whether the scope of each session should be narrower, Hedegaard told The Associated Press on Sunday. "Maybe it would be time now to think if there should be themes for...
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Global Warming Fight Advances With First Steps on Treaty
2013-11-23 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Diplomats from almost 190 nations endorsed a set of measures on global warming, laying the groundwork for a treaty to be adopted in 2015 that would limit pollution by all nations for the first time. The delegates at a United Nations conference called on those who are ready to make pledges on emissions by the first quarter of 2015. They authorized work on a loss and damage mechanism that would help the poorest cope with the impact of climate change, took in $100 million in aid pledges to fund...
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Global Warming Envoys Set to Chart Path to Pollution Cuts
2013-11-22 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Envoys from 190 nations are close to agreeing upon the first building blocks for the next treaty aimed at fighting global warming, sketching the way to worldwide cuts in fossil-fuel emissions. The delegates, due to finish talks today in Warsaw, will make progress on a loss and damage mechanism to assist those coping with storms, floods and erosion caused by rising seas and higher temperatures, said Christiana Figueres, the United Nations diplomat organizing the meeting. Progress depends on...
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