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Colorado anti-fracking initiatives hit signature target

2016-08-09 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Environmental groups in Colorado on Monday said they collected enough signatures to add proposed anti-fracking initiatives to a state ballot in November, as long as their petitions make it through a validation review by the Secretary of State's office. One of the initiatives would strengthen the state's "setback" rules, requiring new oil and gas development facilities to be located at least 2,500 feet from occupied structures and areas of interest, such as parks. The second would transfer regulatory...

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Scientists warn mankind will miss crucial climate change target eight months after agreeing it

2016-08-07 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on. Climate change scientists have warned it may be nearly impossible to keep global warming below the 1.5C target set at the Paris negotiations in December after temperatures peaked at 1.38C above pre-industrial levels in February and March. Met Office data analysed by Reading University professor Ed Hawkins showed average global temperatures were more than 1C over...

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Scientists warn world will miss key climate target

2016-08-06 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5C upper limit for global warming, only eight months after the target was set. The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5C, measured in relation to pre-industrial temperatures, was the headline outcome of the Paris climate negotiations last December. The talks were hailed as a major success by scientists and campaigners, who claimed that, by setting the target, desertification, heatwaves, widespread...

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