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Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Lead 17 C Rise in Arctic Temperatures
2016-05-24 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Burning all the fossil fuels we know to exist on Earth could push global temperature an average of 8 C above preindustrial levels, according to new research. The Arctic would bear the brunt of the warming, with temperatures potentially rising 17 C, said the authors. The new paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, looks at would happen over the next 300 years or so if the world continues to burn coal, oil and gas with no efforts to limit emissions. Dr. Malte Meinshausen from the Potsdam...
Burning all fossil fuels could lead to global warmth not seen in 65 million years
2016-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: If every last crumb of fossil fuel on the planet was burned - all 5.5 trillion tons of the Earth's oil, coal and natural gas now underground - the world could heat up by as much as 18 degrees in the next three centuries, according to a scientific study out Monday that researchers say is a critical warning message on global warming. This would be as warm as when dinosaurs roamed the Earth about 65 million years ago, one expert said. "In that scenario, most of the planet would be unlivable for...
Burning all fossil fuels would 'cook' Earth, raise temperatures 8 degrees: study
2016-05-24 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Burning all the world's known fossil fuels would result in the release of the equivalent of 5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide and drive global temperatures 8 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels by 2300, a report by Canadian researchers has found. The study, published on Tuesday in Nature Climate Change, extended models used for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and found impacts that were "considerably larger" than previously indicated. For instance, by 2300, global temperatures...
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Global Wave of Resistance to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Escalates
2016-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Days after the Colorado Supreme Court denied two cities local authority to regulate fracking, hundreds of climate activists descended Thursday on a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction in Lakewood, just outside Denver, kicking off four days of major direct actions against fossil fuels across the U.S. In addition to the Lakewood demonstration and a larger mobilization elsewhere in Colorado on Saturday, protests and civil disobedience actions are scheduled to take place between...
Is divesting from fossil fuels best tactic tackling climate change?
2016-04-24 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its April; your taxes are filed (hopefully); the cherry blossoms are out (hopefully), and Earth Day has rolled around once more. And in what is becoming yet another April ritual, on a growing number of college campuses, students are staging protests demanding that their institutions divest themselves of any holdings in companies involved in fossil fuel exploration or production coal, crude oil or natural gas. Its all in the spirit of Earth Day. It certainly draws attention to the issue, which...
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