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Defense Department to Congress: Global warming is a 'present security threat'
2015-07-30 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense has detailed what it views as its greatest challenges related to climate change. In a report to Congress, the Defense Department said that global warming poses a "present security threat, not strictly a long-term risk." See also: Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war The report, delivered to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday and publicly released Wednesday, further stated the Defense Department is "already observing...
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Earth now halfway to UN global warming limit
2015-07-30 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT`S the outcome the world wants to avoid, but we are already halfway there. All but one of the main trackers of global surface temperature are now passing more than 1 °C of warming relative to the second half of the 19th century, according to an exclusive analysis done for New Scientist. We could also be seeing the end of the much-discussed slowdown in surface warming since 1998, meaning this is just the start of a period of rapid warming. "There`s a good chance the hiatus is over," says Kevin...
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Global warming deal takes shape with latest UN draft
2015-07-27 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A global pact to fight climate change began to take shape after the United Nations published a new draft of a deal that envoys from 195 nations are working to seal at a year-end summit in Paris. The 88-page document is meant to organise the options that negotiators were grappling with at last month's round of discussions in Bonn, Germany. The paper, published last Friday on the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), includes a 19-page draft of the deal, slimmed down from...
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Pakistan: Climate change : Minister echoes global warming concerns
2015-07-27 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express Tribune: The present unsustainable global economic order has brutally overexploited natural resources to achieve so-called development, benefitted a few while plunging millions in the developing world into poverty and debt. This was stated by Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan while speaking to the media on Sunday. The world direly needs a whole new economic framework to cope with these challenges being aggravated further by the consequences of the global warming caused by the increasing trajectory...
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Essential indicators reflect trends of a warming planet
2015-07-23 19:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earths changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases - setting new records. These key findings and others can be found in the State of the Climate in 2014 report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The report, compiled by NOAAs Center for Weather and Climate at the National Centers for Environmental Information...
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