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Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa video
2015-12-16 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rick Spinrad, chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), announces global warming in the Arctic circle has hit new heights in the past year. Stating that warming is happening more than twice as fast in the Arctic than in the rest of the world, Spinrad says the average air temperature reached 1.3C above its usual level, the highest since observations began
Nearly 200 nations pledge to slow global warming
2015-12-12 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don't. The "Paris agreement" aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change. Loud applause erupted in the conference hall after...
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Joyful ministers seal landmark Paris Agreement to stop global warming
2015-12-12 19:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved Saturday a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief. "I see the room, I see the reaction is...
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Nearly 200 countries near historic accord to slow global warming by reducing emissions
2015-12-12 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France crafted an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by cutting and then eliminating greenhouse gas pollution, urging climate negotiators from nearly 200 nations to adopt it Saturday. If the pact known as "the Paris agreement" is approved, countries would be committed to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and "endeavor to limit" them even more, to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That was...
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Nearly 200 nations near historic deal to slow global warming
2015-12-12 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France presented what it called a "final draft" of an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the levels that nature can absorb, and urged negotiators from nearly 200 nations to approve it Saturday. If the pact known as "the Paris agreement" is approved, countries would be committed to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and "endeavor to limit"...
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