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China and US sign deals on climate change
2014-07-09 11:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States and China on Tuesday signed eight partnership pacts to cut greenhouse gases, bringing the world's two biggest carbon emitters closer together on climate policy. The deals, which involve companies and research bodies, were signed in Beijing ahead of a two-day visit to China by top Obama administration officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's...
Conserving water and climate change
2014-07-08 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: There's more to trying to slow down climate change than just cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Technology, policies or plans that aim to do so should also take environmental factors such as water usage into account. A more integrated approach might make some options considerably more attractive than others, especially when implemented in arid countries such as Australia, advise Philip Wallis of Monash University in Australia and colleagues, in an article in Springer's journal Climatic Change. The...
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Revenue Recognition Change May Not Be Clear Cut For Firms
2014-07-08 19:23:19| ENR.com: Headline News
New financial accounting standards will require more disclosure and could boost outside scrutiny, but wont begin to take effect until December 2016
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Why whale poo could be secret to reversing the effects of climate change
2014-07-08 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The first success of the environmental movements of the 1960s was to save the whale. Now, with deep irony, whales may be about to save us with their poo. A new scientific report from the University of Vermont, which gathers together several decades of research, shows that the great whales which nearly became extinct in the 20th century and are now recovering in number due to the 1983 ban on whaling may be the enablers of massive carbon sinks via their prodigious production of faeces. Not only...
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Climate Change Is Threat to National Security
2014-07-08 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Global warming is real, and we're starting to feel the physical effects now. It's difficult to pin any one event on a warming world; it's like playing craps with a pair of loaded die. That 12 you rolled may have been random, or it may have been because the dice are very slightly weighted. You have to throw a lot of rolls before the effects are seen with any certainty. But these physical effects on our planet are just the start. Droughts, fires, more extreme weather, sea level rise, ocean acidification...
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