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Climate change could impact poor much more than previously thought
2015-01-26 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its widely accepted that climate change will have bigger negative impacts on poorer countries than wealthy ones. However, a new economic modeling study finds that the economic impacts on these poorer countries could be much larger than previous estimates. As a result, they suggest that we should be aiming to limit global warming to near, or perhaps even less than the international target of 2°C. This conclusion is in sharp contrast to current economic models, which generally conclude that the...
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Study Downgrades Climate Impact Wood Burning
2015-01-19 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Surprising new research has sharply downgraded the perceived climate impacts of the gathering and burning of wood by residents of poor and developing countries who rely on the fuel to keep warm and cook food. Of the 2.8 billion people forced to use wood for fuel, often filling their humble homes with life-shortening soot, the vast majority are chopping down and gathering their fuel in ways that allow forests and woodlands to regrow. That isn't just good for the environment around them -- carbon-hungry...
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Palm Oil: Impact of climate change
2014-12-22 07:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Albany Times Union: You may have never heard of palm oil -- let alone thought about the role it played in your investment portfolio. But palm oil is fast becoming a ubiquitous ingredient, already present in half the goods we buy, from toothpaste to body wash, lipstick to detergent, cooking oil to ice cream and coffee to chocolate. Because it is free of trans fats, inexpensive and uses less acreage to grow than some alternatives, demand for palm oil has increased dramatically in the last decade and with it, so have...
Ancient algae provides clues of climate impact on today's microscopic ocean organisms
2014-11-27 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] G.Harris@soton.ac.uk 44-023-805-93212 University of Southampton @unisouthampton A study of ancient marine algae, led by the University of Southampton, has found that climate change affected their growth and skeleton structure, which has potential significance for toda…
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Impact of climate agreement questionable
2014-11-23 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asbury Park Press: The United States-China agreement on climate change is a huge political triumph, possibly "historic," as its supporters say. Whether it much alters the world's climate is a more open question. Recall the agreement's outlines. By 2030, China pledges to reach peak emissions of global greenhouse gases and also to increase its reliance on non-fossil fuels to 20 percent of its total energy. For its part, the United States committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 by 26 percent to 28...
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