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IMF head says world must come grips with climate change costs
2014-06-11 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: While Stephen Harper was congratulating Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday for ending a carbon tax, the head of the IMF was in Montreal urging energy powerhouses like Canada to come to grips with the economics of climate change. International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde urged economists and central bankers from around the world not to wait for the next round of climate change talks to take action to protect the environment. All countries need to put mechanisms...
Climate change heats up 'quants' v old school forecast battle
2014-06-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Computer scientists are picking a new fight with old school meteorologists, claiming finally to have cracked the code on weather forecasting at a pivotal, profitable moment for the field, as climate change roils commodities markets and industries. Banks and traders are reporting outsized profits, and losses, on everything from natural gas to grains as severe weather causes extra price volatility; power grid operators are struggling with bouts of extreme cold or droughts that crimp supplies while...
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Climate change gulf looms between Barack Obama &Tony Abbott
2014-06-11 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change may be the most significant long-term challenge facing the planet, Barack Obama has said in a newly aired TV interview, emphasising the growing differences with Tony Abbott who insists it is certainly not the most important issue facing the world. As Obama and Abbott prepare for their first formal meeting in Washington on Thursday, the differences between their positions on global warming are clearer than ever, and according to diplomatic sources the president will not seek to downplay...
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How Barack Obama and Tony Abbott differ on climate change
2014-06-11 05:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the importance of climate change as a global issue Barack Obama (interview with Thomas Friedman 2014, published in the New York Times): The science is compelling ... If you profess leadership in this country at this moment in our history then you have to recognise that this is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and the planet faces. The good news is that the public may get out ahead of some...
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Republican congressman Jeff Miller rejects climate change, asking why did dinosaurs go extinct?
2014-06-11 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: MAN made climate change is not real, just ask the dinosaurs. A US congressman from Florida has challenged the idea of man made climate change by asking the question: "why did the dinosaurs go extinct?". During a MSNBC interview, Republican Jeff Miller said climate change had been going on for thousands of years. "It changes. It gets hot, it gets cold. It`s done it for as long as we have measured the climate," Mr Miller said on Monday. But when questioned about whether current climate...
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