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Prince Albert: Rising oceans could be 'catastrophic'
2014-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: Saying that time is running out for fixes as oceans rise and grow more acidic, Prince Albert II of Monaco on Friday expressed hope that a retreat at Sunnylands offers a vital opportunity for scientists and policymakers to agree on potential solutions. Albert's comments came in an email to The Desert Sun hours before he opened the three-day retreat at the Annenberg family estate in Rancho Mirage. "This retreat is bringing together scientists, marine environment specialists as well as economic...
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Catastrophic flooding turned U.K. into nation of climate change believers
2014-08-28 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: What`s it going to take to convince people that climate change is a real and serious threat? I`m loath to think an eye-opening catastrophe`s the answer. Yet, there`s this: Half the people who lived through this past winter in the U.K. - which was marked by widespread flooding - said it made them more convinced that climate change is happening, according to a survey conducted by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. And over a quarter of respondents emerged with a strengthened belief that human...
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'We're f*****': Climate change will be catastrophic for mankind
2014-08-08 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: The planet is 'f**cked' after scientists found huge plumes of deadly methane escaping from the seafloor. This is according to Dr Jason Box who claims that methane will be the main driver of climate change if it escapes into the atmosphere. He said: 'If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we're f'd' Scroll down for video The planet is 'f**cked' after scientists found huge plumes of deadly methane escaping from the seafloor. This is according...
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14 concepts will be obsolete after catastrophic climate change
2014-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Erik Conway is a historian of science and technology at the California Institute of Technology. They are the co-authors of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future (Columbia University Press), from which this article is excerpted. Its 2393. A historian is recounting the collapse of Western civilization due to catastrophic climate change. In her anniversary lecture, she explains how the carbon-combustion...
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Oil and Coal Must Be Phased Out Entirely by 2050 to Stop Catastrophic Warming
2014-06-13 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: If we really want to maintain a livable climate, and prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius, then no nation, anywhere, can burn any oil, gas, or coal at all after 2050, according to a striking new analysis of the latest climate science. The world must start preparing for a rapid decarbonization of the energy and industry sectors within the next decade and get to zero emissions by 2050, Bill Hare, a climate scientist at Climate Analytics, told me in an interview from Bonn,...
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