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IPCC chairman: Are we prepared to "pass on a lousy, spoilt and defiled planet"
2013-11-09 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The chairman of the United Nations' climate panel has warned the world to act on global warming to avoid passing "on a lousy, spoilt and defiled planet" to future generations. Rajendra K Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke out as typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Phillipines causing hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction. While Pachauri said it was not possible to blame any single disaster on the steep rise in carbon emissions, the increased...
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ESA releases spectacular Mars flyover video after probes 12,500 trips around the planet
2013-10-28 21:21:24| Extremetech
Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003 on a mission to explore the surface of the Red Planet from both orbit and ground level. The ground-based inspection didn't exactly go to plan, but that hasn't stopped the probe from spending a decade mapping the surface of Mars. Now the ESA has assembled a video based on the topographical data gathered by Mars Express, the effect of which is like flying over the sweeping ruddy planes of the alien world.
Lethal greenhouse gas: India must discuss phasing down hydrofluorocarbon which endanger planet
2013-10-25 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: In September, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama agreed to discuss how hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are hundreds to thousands of times more potent global warming compounds than carbon dioxide, could be phased down. They agreed, bilaterally and at the G20 summit, to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol and report emissions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Action on HFCs offers some common ground in the protracted climate...
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Saving the planet from short-termism will take man on the moon commitment
2013-10-20 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "We choose to go to the moon." So said John F Kennedy in September 1962 as he pledged a manned lunar landing by the end of the decade. The US president knew that his country's space programme would be expensive. He knew it would have its critics, but he took the long-term view. Warming to his theme in Houston that day, JFK went on: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise...
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The tundra: A dark horse in planet Earth's greenhouse gas budget
2013-10-10 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Vast areas on the Northern Hemisphere are covered by tundra. Here, dwarf shrubs, sedges, mosses etc. thrive on top of permafrost in areas where only the uppermost soil layer thaws during the short Arctic summer. New studies show that the tundra may become a source of CO2 in the future. Researcher Magnus Lund from Aarhus University explains: "The soil below the tundra contains very large quantities of carbon -- more than twice as much as is present in the planet's entire atmosphere. Therefore,...
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