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Heat records smashed again as big El Nio rides on global warming
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Worldwide temperatures last month soared to new heights for October, boosted by the second-strongest El Nino on record, adding to the likelihood that 2015 will also smash annual heat records. The amount of heat required to warm up just the top two metres of the El Nino hot spot in the Pacific has been calculated at 100 quadrillion kilojoules - or about the total annual energy use in the US. Average surface temperatures worldwide were 0.53 degrees above the 1981-2010 average and the warmest since...
Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Keep Heat On
2015-11-10 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The key passage -- the forward-looking passage -- of President Obamas speech last week rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline came right at the end, after he rehashed all the arguments about jobs and gas prices that had been litigated endlessly over the last few years. Ultimately, he said, if were going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, were going to have keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and...
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Australia: Greens back 1.5-degree warming limit, turning up heat on Labor, Coalition
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Australian Greens have endorsed calls by Pacific Island nations for a climate treaty limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, putting further distance between its policies and those of the Turnbull government and the Labor Opposition. The move comes as the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) revealed carbon-dioxide levels reached another annual record in 2014, continuing a "relentless rise", according to its chief Michel Jarraud. The national conference of the Greens over the weekend...
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Gov. Brown takes heat for asking state officials to research oil and gas on family ranch
2015-11-05 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Gov. Jerry Brown is defending himself after an Associated Press article raised questions about his decision to ask state officials to help research his family's property. Gov. Jerry Brown is defending himself after an Associated Press article raised questions about his decision to ask state officials to help research his family's property. Gov. Jerry Brown was only interested in "the history and geology of his family ranch" in Colusa County when he asked state officials about the potential...
Extreme Heat is Defining Climate Change
2015-11-05 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The lasting legacy of climate change will be heat. The land, the oceans, all of it. Its the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience it. All eight papers dealing with extreme heat events in this years Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societys attribution report show a clear climate change signal that made them more likely, more hot or both. In...
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