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UN climate talks amid new warnings of dire warming
2013-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: With fewer than 800 days left to agree a new UN pact on global warming, climate negotiators gather in Warsaw next week armed with just the haziest outlines of a deal. Following are the main issues facing the November 11-22 conference: SHAPE OF 2015 ACCORD In 2011, UN members agreed to conclude a new deal by 2015 that would limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Taking effect from 2020, it would bind all countries-- including chief polluters the United States...
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UN draft stresses risk of global warming, from economy to health
2013-11-08 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming poses a mounting threat to health, economic growth, crops and water supplies, according to a draft report by top scientists that puts unprecedented emphasis on the risks of a changing climate. A leaked 29-page draft by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), about the impacts of rising temperatures and due for release in March 2014, mentions "risk" 139 times against just 41 in its last assessment in 2007. The increased stress on risk may make the case for cutting...
UN says global warming temperature threshold 'ever-more elusive'
2013-11-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: A new UN report has warned the chances of limiting an increase in global temperature to two degrees Celcius this century are becoming increasingly slim. The news comes ahead of the body's annual climate talks next week. By 2020, emissions of so-called "carbon dioxide equivalents" will reach around 59 billion tons, The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report presented in Berlin on Tuesday. In order to achieve the two-degree goal, that number should not be more than 44 billion tons by 2020....
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Levels of gases in atmosphere blamed for global warming increased to record high in 2012
2013-11-06 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday. "For all these major greenhouse gases the concentrations are reaching once again record levels," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud told a news conference in Geneva at which he presented the UN climate agency's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin . Jarraud said the accelerating trend was driving climate change, making it harder to keep global...
Warming gases reach record high
2013-11-06 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The levels of gases in the atmosphere that drive global warming increased to a record high in 2012. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2 grew more rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decade. Concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide also broke previous records Thanks to carbon dioxide and these other gases, the WMO says the warming effect on our climate has increased by almost a third since 1990. The WMO's annual greenhouse gas...
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