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Government action missing as report confirms climate crisis
2013-09-28 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
di-ve: Governments have been handed a firm mandate to act decisively on the climate crisis by a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Nature Trust Malta said today. The first instalment on the physical science basis of the IPCCs fifth assessment report - signed off by 110 nations after its summary was negotiated line by line in Stockholm this week - said it was more certain than ever before that human activities were responsible for climate change. For the first...
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Australia: Tony Abbott's warfare against action on climate change has started
2013-09-26 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite repeated promises to the contrary, it is now becoming clear that the Abbott government has no intention of taking meaningful action on climate change. The Coalition's so-called Direct Action policy has always been a farce and a policy fig leaf to cover Tony Abbott's belief that climate change science is, as he once described it, "crap' -- a view shared by the hand-picked chair of his new Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, who recently declared that "anthropological' (as he described...
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Delaying climate action will triple costs
2013-09-19 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If the world puts off cooperative efforts to fight climate change until 2030, they will be more than three times as expensive as they would be in 2015. Thats according to a study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. A team of researchers modeled the economic impacts of possible international climate agreements and found that if the world starts in 2015 to take the difficult but necessary steps to limit global...
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Climate costs rise like sea levels with delayed action on climate change
2013-09-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Many of the readers have visited Charlestons Market, just a couple blocks from the harbor, where my business is located. Tourism is our lifeblood as it is for our city. So when our low-lying area of Charleston is flooded from heavy rain and tourists think twice before wading through more than a foot of water to shop, Im concerned and very worried about even worse flooding problems in the future. Charleston, like all of South Carolinas coastal tourism communities, is significantly threatened...
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Indian States Share Climate Change Action Plans
2013-09-18 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Earlier this year, the World Bank warned warming global temperatures would pose a significant risk to India, causing extreme drought in some areas and extreme flooding in others. Indian officials this week are meeting with global industry leaders to exchange ideas on how to fight climate change and encourage sustainable development. Sudripta Roy, the chief secretary of Himachal Pradesh said he has not had to look too far to witness the effects of climate change. Roy has conducted aerial surveys...
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