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The Window for Avoiding a Dangerous Climate Change Has Closed
2016-07-03 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: Barring some incredible new carbon capture technology, the window for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius appears to have closed. Thats the stark conclusion of a report out in Nature today, which finds that the carbon reductions pledges penned into the Paris Agreement are ridiculously inadequate for keeping our climate within a safe and stable boundary. The Paris Agreement--a historic piece of climate change policy adopted by leaders of 195 countries last December--pledged...
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Study warns dangerous global warming to happen sooner
2016-07-02 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco News: According to new Australian research that highlights the alarming implications of rising energy demand the world is on track to reach dangerous levels of global warming much sooner than expected. University of Queensland (UQ) and Griffith University researchers have developed a global energy tracker that predicts average world temperatures could climb 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2020. That forecast, based on new modelling using long-term average projections on economic...
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Children at nearly 90 London secondary schools exposed to dangerous air pollution
2016-07-01 13:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children at nearly 90 secondary schools in London breathe illegal and dangerous levels of air pollution, a report for the mayor reveals. Former mayor Boris Johnson was accused in May of burying a report that showed hundreds of primary schools were in areas that breached EU pollution limits in 2010, prompting calls for greater action to clean up the capitals air. But new research looking for the first time at which secondary schools in the capital are exposed to illegal levels of the toxic...
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'Rare, dangerous' heat headed parts of Western US
2016-06-19 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: It's a dry heat, Phoenix residents like to say about Arizona's hot weather. That bravado may vanish as the thermometer flirts with 120 degrees this weekend. Phoenix won't be alone in the oven. A strengthening ridge of high pressure lifting out of Mexico is on course to also scorch other parts of Arizona and Southern California, bringing potentially record-shattering temperatures. Though accustomed to triple digits, the upcoming heat spell is a rarity in Phoenix, a desert metropolis of 1.5 million...
Fire service demands recall of dangerous tumble dryers
2016-06-18 01:40:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Manufacturers of dangerous tumble dryers should recall them immediately after figures revealed firefighters are attending three blazes a day caused by the appliances.
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