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IPCC report warns future climate change risks, but is spun by contrarians
2014-03-31 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just published its latest Working Group II report detailing impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability associated with climate change. The picture it paints with respect to the consequences of continued climate change is rather bleak. For example, the report discusses the risk associated with food insecurity due to more intense droughts, floods, and heat waves in a warmer world, especially for poorer countries. This contradicts the claims of climate...
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Leaked UN report warns of climate change risks
2014-03-30 23:36:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Rich and poor countries are still unprepared for many threats posed by climate change and extreme weather, a United Nations assessment of global warming will warn. Scientific authors and government representatives from around the world have spent the weekend negotiating the final text of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a meeting in Yokohama, Japan. Several leaked drafts of the report indicate the panel will warn that observed impacts of climate change are substantial....
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Climate change and health: IPCC reports emerging risks, emerging consensus
2014-03-30 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Impacts volume of the Fifth Assessment Report will be released today. Here, three contributors to the health chapter explain the ideas and evidence behind the report. The consequences of human-driven global climate change as this century progresses will be wide-ranging. Yet public discussion has focused narrowly on a largely spurious debate about the basic science and on the risks to property, iconic species and ecosystems, jobs, the GDP and...
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UN report dials up humanity's global warming risks; scientist says 'We're all sitting ducks'
2014-03-30 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel reports, warning that the wild climate ride has only just begun. Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, says a massive new report from a Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists released early...
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Exxon Agrees to Reveal Climate Change Risks
2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living On Earth: Activist investors in major fossil fuel companies have been filing shareholder resolutions that ask the corporations to disclose their plans to address global warming, and the potential carbon regulation that could be coming. Danielle Fugere, President of the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, tells host Steve Curwood that Exxon Mobil has agreed. Transcript CURWOOD: As the climate crisis becomes more apparent, shareholders are pushing fossil fuel corporations to say what impact global warming...
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