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Obama Climate Change: No Challenge Poses Greater Threat Future Generation
2015-01-21 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama issued a direct rebuke to climate change deniers and to members of Congress who seek to block action to slow global warming. "I`ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they`re not scientists; that we don`t have enough information to act," he said, referring to talking points that are popular among Republican politicians. "Well, I`m not a scientist, either. ButI know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and...
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Earth's Future? Ancient Warming Gives Ominous Peek Climate Change
2014-12-15 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: New data from the Earth's last big warmup, some 56 million years ago, may offer a sneak peek into what today's climate change may eventually look like. Scientists have determined that the rate at which carbon emissions heated up the planet during the late Paleocene is much more similar to modern human-caused warming than many experts previously thought, a new report published Monday in Nature Geoscience shows. The good news, the researchers say, is that most of the species around at the time...
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U.N. climate talks fracture over future carbon markets
2014-06-16 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The use of carbon markets to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions was dealt a blow on Sunday after two weeks of United Nations talks on designing and reforming the mechanisms ended in deadlock. The negotiations, held as part of U.N. climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, made scant progress as envoys representing almost 200 nations tied reforms to progress under the wider discussions and remained entrenched in diverse positions. The stalemate gives investors little sign that there will be a...
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Climate policy & the future of coal: Obamas green gamble
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: WITH a metallic gasp, the chute opens its metal jaws and deposits precisely 230,000 pounds of coal into the railway car. The pour is carefully calibrated to create an aerodynamically efficient heap; sealant is sprayed evenly across the coals surface to limit dust release. Fully loaded, the car moves along to be replaced by another; it takes two-and-a-half hours to load the two-mile-long train. Four trains, each carrying 15,000 tonnes of coal, leave the Spring Creek mine in Montana every day, often...
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Climate change to affect Philippines future credit ratings
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: The Philippines was cited as one of the countries most vulnerable to the risks, financial or otherwise, of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report released by Standard & Poors (S&P) on Friday. Others on the S&P list were Vietnam, Bangladesh, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Their vulnerability is in part due to their reliance on agricultural production and employment, which can be vulnerable to shifting climate patterns and extreme weather events, but also due...
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