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Groundbreaking Ruling: State Has Constitutional Obligation to Stem Tide of Global Warming
2015-11-20 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Late last night, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis R. Hill issued a groundbreaking ruling in the unprecedented case of eight youth petitioners who requested that the Washington Department of Ecology write a carbon emissions rule that protects the atmosphere for their generation and those to come. In a landmark decision, Judge Hill declared [the youths] very survival depends upon the will of their elders to act now, decisively and unequivocally, to stem the tide of global warming before...
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Even as Congress investigates the global warming pause, actual temperatures are surging
2015-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: Matters seem to have escalated in the current dispute between Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As our own Joby Warrick and Lisa Rein have reported, Smith sent subpoenas to NOAA several weeks ago, seeking internal emails and documents regarding a blockbuster June study by its scientists, which had appeared to erase the notion of a global warming pause. This notion -- that global...
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Runaway global warming becomes concern permafrost melts
2015-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a fragile landscape where footsteps leave an imprint for years, Jennifer Baltzer stood and surveyed the surrounding bog of green sphagnum moss. Black spruce trees tilted here and there like drunkards. Using a metal rod, Baltzer, an ecologist with Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, pierced the ground near a spruce. "You are jamming into ice there," she said. Without that freeze, the unstable spruce trees would entirely lose their footing and drown. Goose Lake is at the knife's...
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Narendra Modi backs two degree global warming limit: report
2015-11-20 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearly backs the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, a source close to French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday. Leaders from 195 nations will meet from 30 November to 11 December in Paris to try to nail down an agreement after the last global climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009 collapsed. Fabius, who will chair the conference, has embarked on a three-day tour to make sure big emerging...
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Congressman now threatens to subpoena commerce secretary over global warming report
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) opened another front in his war with federal climate researchers on Wednesday, saying a groundbreaking global warming study was rushed to publication over the objections of numerous scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a second letter in less than a week to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Smith urged her to pressure NOAA to comply with his subpoena for internal communications. Smith says whistleblowers...
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