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Taking lead on global warming mitigation would limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius
2015-10-27 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NH Voice: In a latest paper, climate scientists have argued that the disagreement over how climate change can be fought wasn't that complex. According to them, effective solutions are possible in case a single major economy would take a step forward and lead on the problem. In a press release, Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Melbourne, said, "If either the European Union or the US would pioneer and set a benchmark for climate...
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Global warming linked to the health of children
2015-10-27 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a policy statement that links climate change with the health of children, urging pediatricians and politicians to work together to solve this crisis and protect children from climate-related threats including natural disasters, heat stress, lower air quality, increased infections, and threats to food and water supplies. "Every child need a safe and healthy environment and climate change is a rising public health threat to all children in this...
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Congress skeptic on global warming demands records US climate scientists
2015-10-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The head of a congressional committee on science has issued subpoenas to the Obama administration over a recent scientific study refuting claims that global warming had paused or slowed over the last decade. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and a prominent congressional skeptic on climate change, issued the subpoenas two weeks ago demanding e-mails and records from U.S. scientists who participated in the study, which undercut a popular...
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3 Biggest Fossil Fuel Consumers Fall Far Short of Fair Contain Global Warming
2015-10-24 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Pledges by the three titans of greenhouse gas emission--Europe, the U.S. and China, which are the three biggest fossil fuel consumers--fall far short of fair and may not be nearly enough to contain global warming, according to new research. In the complex game of power politics, development economics, environmental campaigning, climate science and greenhouse gas accounting that will characterize the forthcoming UN climate summit in Paris, COP21, in December, the most important components so...
Pulp Fiction: European Accounting Error That's Warming the Planet
2015-10-23 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the world tries to shift away from fossil fuels, the energy industry is turning to what seems to be an endless supply of renewable energy: wood. In England and across Europe, wood has become the renewable of choice, with forests -- many of them in the U.S. -- being razed to help feed surging demand. But as this five-month Climate Central investigation reveals, renewable energy doesnt necessarily mean clean energy. Burning trees as fuel in power plants is heating the atmosphere more quickly than...
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