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Climate change one-two punch killed dinosaurs study
2016-07-05 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The dinosaurs` long reign was not ended by a merciful knockout punch, but by a torturous millennia of climate change before and after the oft-blamed space rock slammed into Earth, scientists said Tuesday. The impact at Chicxulub in modern-day Mexico certainly contributed to the disappearance of the giant lizards and other creatures, but was by no means the sole cause, a team concluded in a study published in Nature Communications. Of 24 mollusk species which went extinct at one Atlantic island,...
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UK climate change sceptics botch Paris deal hit-job
2016-07-05 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Critics of the UK`s climate policy sense a window of opportunity post Brexit, but an inability to download the right PDF is hampering their hopes Lord Lawson, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation In prayer, deep thought or perhaps deep sleep, the Right Reverend Dr Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester sat unmoving, eyes closed. Two seats away, a rather nervous and red-faced law professor held court in committee room 2, a high ceilinged room in Britains parliament with views over...
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Court Decision on Climate Plan Jolts Carbon Prices
2016-07-05 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A temporary halt to the federal government's plan to cut electric power plant emissions has caused carbon prices in the Northeast's only cap-and-trade program to plummet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Carbon prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, have fallen 40 percent since the Supreme Court's decision in February to stay the Clean Power Plan -- from their peak at $7.50 per metric ton of carbon dioxide in December to $4.53 per ton in June. RGGI is America's first...
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In Kiribati, Faith-Based Climate Change Denial Could Prove Costly As Nation Goes Underwater
2016-07-05 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Patheos: Televangelist Jim Bakker Forgave the People Who Put Him in Jail... Even Though He Was Guilty In Kiribati, Faith-Based Climate Change Denial Could Prove Costly As Nation Goes Underwater The New York Times published a story over the weekend about the island nation of Kiribati, a place that may "become uninhabitable within decades because of an onslaught of environmental problems linked to climate change." It`s disturbing in a lot of ways. People have to consider whether to move abroad, if they...
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Pershing: Next president 'will have to deal' with climate
2016-07-05 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Jonathan Pershing, U.S. special envoy for climate change. Photo courtesy of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing says that when his international counterparts ask him how the U.S. election will affect the Paris Agreement, he talks about what won't change rather than what could. In an interview with ClimateWire, the new top U.S. negotiator acknowledged that the diplomats and ministers he has spoken to since taking the...
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