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'Business as usual' will create the warmest Earth ever, warns IPCC lead author
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: It's the most comprehensive appraisal of climate change ever undertaken and the news isn't good. The United Nations' climate change body's new report says the scientific evidence is unambiguous about the warming of the planet and the need for action. Greenhouse gases are at their highest levels for 800,000 years. The Earth is on a trajectory for warming of at least four degrees Celsius by 2100. That'll mean more and longer heatwaves and storms and more species extinctions....
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Amazon Wants You to 'Scout' the Next Big Author
2014-10-28 02:02:47| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Check out unreleased books on Amazon Scout and help decide which will get published.
Merchants of Doubt Author Slams "Corrosive" Climate Change Skepticism
2014-10-06 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that "verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible." In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al. paper when I challenged the claim that computers will revolutionize research into so-called complex systems. "The tobacco industry was way ahead of the postmodernists," says Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt,...
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Author Junot Diaz to Speak at Purchase College-SUNY in October
2014-09-18 01:02:43| Beverages - Topix.net
The Purchase College-SUNY School of Humanities will present An Evening with Junot DA az: A Lecture, Reading, and Conversation on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 from 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The event-which is free and open to the public-will take place at the Pepsico Theater, the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College . A book signing will follow the lecture/reading.
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Author claims Richard Branson failed deliver on $3bn climate pledge
2014-09-14 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue aund Green: Richard Branson has failed to deliver on a pledge to spend $3 billion (1.8bn) on climate action over a ten-year period from 2006, according to author and activist Naomi Klein in her new book. Klein argues that this demonstrates that relying on the world of big business to address climate change is hypocrisy. After meeting with former US vice president Al Gore, Branson pledged to spend a significant amount of money, coming from profits from his company Virgin, to develop low carbon fuel. However,...
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