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The future of the planet and the irresponsibility of governments
2014-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Less than a week after everybody celebrated the historical agreement on Nov. 17 between the United States and China on reduction of CO2 emissions, a very cold shower has come from India. Indian Power Minister Piyush Goyal has declared: "India's development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate change many years in the future. The West will have to recognise we have the needs of the poor". This is also a blow to the Asia policy of U.S. President Barack Obama, who...
Hottest October on Record Puts Planet on Track for Hottest Year Ever
2014-11-21 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Need more evidence of the impact of climate change on the Earth? The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that the global temperature in October was the hottest on record. The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for October 2014 was the highest on record for the month since record keeping began in 1880, the agency said. It also marked the 38th consecutive October with a global temperature above the...
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Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
2014-11-10 08:27:15| Agriculture - Topix.net
My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine's attitude toward becoming celibate -- "God grant me abstinence, but not yet." But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction , and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
Bill Nye Hits The Nail On The Head With Explanation How Greenhouse Gasses Heat Planet
2014-11-08 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: We all know that greenhouse gasses are bad. And that climate change is bad and we need to stop emitting greenhouse gasses by the end of the century or risk dire climate-related consequences, such as dramatic sea level rise, extreme weather events, and food shortages. But what's the connection between emissions and these terrible scenarios? Bill Nye, The Science Guy, made the great video below a few years ago with Climate Reality that explains just that. While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide...
Birth of a solar system: The first ever high-resolution image of planet formation
2014-11-06 19:11:52| Extremetech
Feast your eyes, my friends, on this -- by far the most detailed image ever of a young star and its protoplanetary disk. Here you can see the young star HL Tau, which is only about one million years old, as dust and gas swirl around it, gradually forming into planets and asteroids. Believe it or not, a few billion years ago, this is what our very own Solar System would've looked like.
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