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India, Brazil among nations resisting long-term goals limit global warming
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Negotiators from both countries said Wednesday they favor sticking to the already established goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) above pre-industrial times -- a level that scientists say could avoid the worst impacts of climate change. That goal was formally introduced in the U.N. talks in 2010. But many countries are calling for the Paris deal to include a road map on how to achieve it, such as a joint target for phasing out the emissions of carbon dioxide and other...
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New research finds that global warming is intensifying wildfires
2015-12-03 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The fire season in northern California during 2014 was the second longest in terms of burned areas since 1996. An increase in fire risk in California is attributable to human-induced climate change. The authors, Jin-Ho Yoon and colleagues make the point that California has been under drought conditions since 2012 and that the drought worsened recently. As is obvious, drought exacerbates the threat from wildfires. Last year, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection saw many more...
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UN on wrong track with plans limit global warming to 2C, says top scientist
2015-12-03 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One of the worlds leading atmospheric scientists has told the UN that its present attempt to limit emissions is half-arsed and half-baked and risks handing the next generation a climate system that is out of their control. James Hansen, former head of Nasas Goddard Center and the man who raised awareness of climate change in a key Senate hearing back in 1988 said that the UN meeting was on the wrong track by seeking a 2C maximum rise in temperatures. What I am hearing is that the heads...
Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
2015-12-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics, has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world's oceans of around six degrees Celsius -- which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 -- could stop oxygen...
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COP21: Coal plans would derail 2 degree warming target
2015-12-01 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: to keep global warming to 2 degrees will be wildly off course if all planned coal fire plants are built. That's the conclusion of a new analysis presented here at the UN climate conference near Paris. Researchers said construction would see emissions four times higher than the 2 degree target by 2030. They say the building plans are in conflict with the carbon cutting agendas of countries like India and China. The Climate Action Tracker analysis says that 2,440 coal fired power stations...
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