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Climate change targets may not be enough prevent 2C global warming
2014-07-11 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Even if governments can agree on a global pact to cut carbon emissions in a crucial UN summit next year, it may already be too late to prevent the most devastating impacts of climate change, a new study has claimed. Analysts suggest the mitigation strategies and targets that negotiators already have in mind, ahead of the 2015 climate talks in Paris, are insufficient to limit global temperature rises to below 2C from pre-industrial times. This is the threshold suggested by scientists and agreed...
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Public opinion on climate change: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for policymakers?
2014-07-11 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: In all the discussion about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new climate change rule and power plants, there has not been much thought given to the poll numbers. Since policymakers are presumably in office to represent the public, let's take a look at the numbers from a variety of polls and see what they say. First, provided below is a graphic that provides a long-term perspective on climate change from a number of polls. It indicates that the majority of Americans have believed, for...
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Climate change solution: Scrap subsidies, fund innovation
2014-07-11 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Mark your calendars. November 30, 2015 is international climate D-Day. Representatives from 196 countries will meet in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to complete negotiations on a new international climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2020. Unfortunately, in the lead up to the negotiations there have been few new suggestions that deviate from the norm, signaling that Paris may be doomed to retread the tried-and-failed carbon targets and subsidy...
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In Las Vegas, Climate Change Deniers Regroup, Vow to Keep Doubt Alive
2014-07-10 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Earlier this week, the Heartland Institute convened its Ninth International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas. A nonprofit, free-market think tank in Chicago with a $6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences since 2008 for those dubious of the science confirming human-caused climate change. It is called the ICCC for short, the acronym an intentional echo of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body that has published the most comprehensive...
Nadella on Microsoft's culture change: 'Nothing is off the table'
2014-07-10 21:52:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft staffers worldwide should buckle their seat belts because a big culture shakeup is in the works at the company. In a long letter sent to employees on Thursday, CEO Satya Nadella said that he and his lieutenants are taking "important steps to visibly change our culture."
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