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World faces decades of climate chaos, outgoing chief scientific adviser warns
2013-03-25 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Professor Sir John Beddington said that time lags in the climate system meant that accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now will determine the weather we experience for the next 25 years. Climate change is already manifesting itself in huge variations in the weather, clearly illustrated by the way Britain experienced both drought and extreme rainfall last year, he said. The scientist said that the international community's failure to agree binding targets for cutting carbon emissions...
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EU Climate Chief Says Talks on Airline Emissions Will Test Obama
2013-02-28 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said an early test of President Barack Obamas commitment to combating climate change is how he negotiates an international agreement on aviation emissions. I really believe that when its about finding a global way forward for aviation now, we -- the U.S. and the European Union -- should be on the same side, working for the obvious, namely that if I take a long-haul plane, be it from Washington to Europe or from Europe to Beijing, it is only...
EU climate chief to huddle with White House, State officials
2013-02-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: The European Unions climate minister is heading to Washington, D.C., for meetings with senior Obama administration officials as the White House is vowing to confront global warming during President Obamas second term. European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard will meet Friday with Obama aide Michael Froman, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, as well as Todd Stern, the State Departments special envoy for climate change. The schedule also...
EU climate chief: Obama would send strong signal by nixing Keystone
2013-02-28 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: The European Unions climate minister said Thursday that White House rejection of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would be an extremely strong signal of the Obama administrations second-term intent to confront global warming. If you had a U.S. administration that would avoid doing something that they could do, with the argument that in the time we are living in, with the climate change we are faced with, we should not do everything we can do, then I think it would be a very, very...
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Ex-wildlife chief warns of climate change in SC
2013-02-27 04:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The State: Following revelations the state wildlife department has failed to release a major climate change report, the agency's former chief said the department should be leading efforts to brace South Carolina for the consequences of global warming. John Frampton, who left the Department of Natural Resources last year, said that the Earth's rising temperatures will undoubtedly affect the state's landscape and wildlife in coming years and that the DNR is well qualified to examine the impacts in South Carolina....
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