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Landmark Ruling Rejects Disastrous Water Diversion Project in Nevada and Utah

2013-12-12 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: In a landmark decision released yesterday, Senior Judge Robert Estes of the Seventh Judicial District Court of Nevada rejected the Nevada state engineers 2011 allocation of approximately 84,000 acre-feet of ancient groundwater a year to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for export to Las Vegas. The decision is a huge blow to the Water Authoritys plan to suck massive amounts of water out of the Nevada-Utah desert to feed urban sprawl in and around Las Vegas. Cave Lake State Park in White Pine...

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Scientists: Current International Warming Target Is Disastrous

2013-12-04 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Desk: Ever since the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, world leaders have agreed on 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F) as the maximum acceptable global warming above preindustrial levels to avert the worst impacts of climate change (today we`re at about 0.8 degrees C). But a new study, led by climatologist James Hansen of Columbia University, argues that pollution plans aimed at that target would still result in "disastrous consequences," from rampant sea level rise to widespread extinction. A major...

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James Hansen: 2C Temperature Rise Would Be Disastrous

2013-12-03 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: Governments have set the wrong target to limit climate change. The goal at present--to limit global warming to a maximum of two degree Celsius higher than the average for most of human history--would have consequences that can be described as disastrous, say 18 scientists in a review paper in the journal PLOS One. The goal at present--to limit global warming to a two degree Celsius rise scenario--will still have dire consequences, leading scientists have found. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock...

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Putting a price on nature would be disastrous | Nick Dearden

2013-11-27 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: As UN climate negotiations rumbled on in Warsaw, big business came together with conservation groups in Edinburgh last week at the inaugural World Forum on Natural Capital to put a price on nature. The idea goes back to the Rio+20 conference in 2012, when a group of investors drafted the natural capital declaration. It argues that if we price everything nature gives us (wildlife, plants, forests, waterways, pollination, you name it), companies would think twice before destroying them. Like...

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