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Study: Bigger Carbon Cuts Needed Prevent Catastrophic Global Warming
2016-02-25 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If the world hopes to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, humanity must emit less than half the carbon dioxide than previously thought in the coming years, a new study shows. In order to keep global warming to no more than 2°C (3.6°F) the basis for the Paris climate agreement struck last year scientists have devised a carbon budget for how much carbon can be emitted before warming crosses into catastrophic territory.
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Study calls for leaner carbon budget to slow warming
2016-02-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If the world hopes to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, humanity must emit less than half the carbon dioxide than previously thought in the coming years, a new study shows. In order to keep global warming to no more than 2°C (3.6°F) -- the basis for the Paris climate agreement struck last year -- scientists have devised a "carbon budget' for how much carbon can be emitted before warming crosses into catastrophic territory. Their estimates range from about 590 gigatons (1...
Fossil fuel use must fall twice as fast to contain global warming - study
2016-02-25 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world: to contain global warming to the limits agreed by 195 nations in Paris last December, they will have to cut fossil fuel combustion at an even faster rate than anybody had predicted. Joeri Rogelj, research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, and European and Canadian colleagues propose in Nature Climate Change that all previous...
Warming climate is bad news for western US aquifers
2016-02-24 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new report is the first to integrate scientists' knowledge about groundwater in the U.S. West with scientific models that show how climate change will affect the region. "We wanted to know, 'What are the expectations for increases and decreases in groundwater as we go forward in this century?'" said lead...
Earth is warming is 50x faster than when it comes out of an ice age
2016-02-24 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Recently, The Guardian reported on a significant new study published in Nature Climate Change, finding that even if we meet our carbon reduction targets and stay below the 2°C global warming threshold, sea level rise will eventually inundate many major coastal cities around the world. 20% of the worlds population will eventually have to migrate away from coasts swamped by rising oceans. Cities including New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Calcutta, Jakarta and Shanghai would all be submerged....
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