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Chile desert rains sign of climate change, chief weather scientist says
2015-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The heavy rainfall that battered Chile's usually arid north this week happened because of climate change, a senior meteorologist said, as the region gradually returns to normal after rivers broke banks and villages were cut off. "For Chile, this particular system can only be possible in an environment of a changed climate," Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Jeremiah Lengoasa told Reuters on a visit to Santiago on Friday. The intense rainfall that began Tuesday in...
EPA chief races finish landmark climate rules
2015-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Gina McCarthy is locked in a race against time to complete landmark climate change regulations before President Obama leaves office. With just 22 months left in Obamas presidency, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator and her team are burning the midnight oil to enshrine emissions regulations for power plants in federal law. McCarthy says shes busier than [shes] ever been as the caretaker of what Obama hopes will be a legacy-defining achievement on climate change. One of...
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Former UN Climate Panel Chief Barred from Leaving India
2015-03-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A court Feb. 26 barred the former chairman of the U.N. climate panel from leaving India, where he faces charges of sexually harassing a woman at his New Delhi energy institute. The court also said R.K. Pachauri could not be arrested until after March 27, while he undergoes hospital treatment for hypertension. But it prohibited him from entering or contacting anyone at the research and lobbying organization he heads, called The Energy Resources Institute. Pachauri had chaired the Intergovernmental...
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Indian climate chief told to stay away from thinktank after harassment claim
2015-02-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An Indian court on Thursday ordered Rajendra Pachauri, a leading global voice on climate change, to stay away from his Delhi thinktank after a female employee accused him of sexual harassment. Pachauri, 74, quit as chair of the United Nations panel of climate scientists on Tuesday, ending 13 turbulent years in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, after the employee, a 29-year-old researcher, made the accusation. Pachauri, who had been chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
UN climate chief to miss key meeting after sex harassment claim
2015-02-22 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: A top United Nations climate change official has pulled out of a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials have said. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), withdrew due to "issues demanding his attention," the U.N. body said in a statement late Saturday. The allegations come at a crucial time as Pachauri tries to set the table for a key climate change summit...
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