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derma e Takes Action To Preserve Our Planet
2013-04-29 05:48:35| pollutiononline News Articles
With greenhouse gas levels higher than ever, and air, water and soil pollution increasing, Earth Day 2013 can't come soon enough
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New Web Site to Track CO2 Levels as Planet Approaches 400 ppm
2013-04-25 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide approach the milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched a Website that will publish daily readings of CO2 concentrations, an online resource he hopes will drive home the urgent threat of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO2 program and son of the first scientist to measure CO2 concentrations, hopes the daily tracker will attract more attention than...
This faith in the markets is misplaced: only governments can save our living planet
2013-04-24 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In other ages, states sought to seize as much power as they could. Today, the self-hating state renounces its powers. Governments anathematise governance. They declare their role redundant and illegitimate. They launch furious assaults on their own branches, seeking wherever possible to lop them off. This self-mutilation is a response to the fact that power has shifted. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the...
Our planet cannot afford inaction
2013-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courier-Post: Earth Day 2013 arrives tomorrow, in a world that continues to face massive, long-term environmental challenges, all across the globe. Many of those challenges are directly attributable to climate change the melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels, increases in weather extremes and violent storms. Government policy debates on energy and development are increasingly shaped by a growing understanding of global warming and its myriad effects. Scientists overwhelmingly acknowledge the existence...
Burn our planet or face financial meltdown. Not much of a choice
2013-04-21 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is going to fry unless there is change soon. There is weakening political will to make national and international targets for carbon reduction stick, no strong business and financial coalition prepared to lead and a weakening groundswell of public opinion prepared to foot the bill. Instead, the international consensus of 25 years ago that the world must act to challenge climate change is dissolving. Individual countries are trying to steal a march on each other in a race to the...
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