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UK's Conservatives to fight climate change but shun wind power
2015-05-12 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: As the UK's new Conservative government bedded down following its triumph in the elections last week, it has reaffirmed its conviction to fight climate change, to the relief of environmental pressure groups. The new minister for energy and climate change, Amber Rudd, has made clear her unequivocal backing for action to combat climate change and for the science behind it, unlike the more sceptical fringes of her party. This is vital in a year when a major international deal to combat global warming...
Carbon time-bomb Siberia threatens catastrophic climate change
2015-05-11 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express: Experts have said thawing permafrost in little-known peat bogs in the frozen Russian wilderness could expedite the global warming process. Vast swathes of marshland in Siberia are starting to emit greenhouse gases 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The threat comes from bogs around the size of mainland France which absorbed carbon dioxide over thousands of years before freezing over during the last Ice Age. Now for the first time in 11,000 years, the thick permafrost...
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Survey: Climate change ranks surprisingly low among reasons people oppose Keystone XL
2015-05-11 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When it comes to political hot potatoes, there may not be a better example than the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Since Canada-based TransCanada Corp. first proposed the pipeline in 2008, it has served as a litmus test for where President Obama stands on energy, economic and environmental issues. One of those latter issues is climate change, as environmental groups that oppose the pipeline argue that approving it would be bad news for the climate. Whether the pipelines construction would significantly...
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Climate change attitudes are reflected on social networks
2015-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: People who believe in climate change have more Facebook friends than those who do not consider climate change a problem. Juha Itkonen's dissertation in economics shows that values and social networks are linked to opinions about climate change. Studies which examine the relationship between carbon emissions and economic growth contain methodological flaws, and consequently underestimate the need for climate policy. Meanwhile, conflicting opinions on climate change remain fixed, as social networks...
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Climate change protestors issue call to public
2015-05-11 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Times: Bill McEwan and his son Robbie McEwan plan not to eat anything during their protest which could run up to a week. A Marlborough father and son have decided to make a public stand to highlight potential effects of climate change in the region. Former farm advisor Bill McEwan and his son, Robbie, will not eat for up to a week while they camp out in the Blenheim Band Rotunda to publicise what is at stake locally if a solution to climate change is not found. "It is not a sit-in but a call, or...
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