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United Kingdom: George Osborne accused making climate change worse with tax breaks
2014-06-01 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Friends of the Earth has accused the chancellor George Osborne of exacerbating climate change by handing out 2.7bn of incentives to energy companies to fuel North Sea oil and gas production. FoE said he was too focused on propping up oil companies at the expense of making renewable energy cheaper. David Powell, economics campaigner at FoE, said: "The chancellor falls over himself to claim renewable energy is expensive, while bending over backwards to offer oil barons massive tax breaks. "Reducing...
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Climate change to boost summer flash floods, says study
2014-06-01 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Global warming will lead to a significant increase in extreme summer downpours in the UK, a study suggests. The Met Office and Newcastle University researchers say there could be five times the number of "extreme rainfall events" per hour, under extreme warming projections. This would cause "really severe" flash flooding in many parts of the UK, according to the scientists. However, they caution that this result is based on only one computer model. Flash flooding in Britain has had devastating...
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United Kingdom: Climate change rainfall warning
2014-06-01 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunderland Echo: Short, sharp downpours could become an increasingly unwanted characteristic of the British summer if the effects of global warming are to continue, experts have warned. A landmark study by the Met Office and Newcastle University has identified how climate change could result in heavier summer rainfall, which in turn could increase the risk of flash flooding. The study, published in the Nature and Climate Change journal, said: " Short duration rain events are predicted to intensify during the summer...
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UN climate change chief praises new US pollution regulations
2014-06-01 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's new power plant regulations, due for release on Monday, could unlock stalled negotiations for a global deal on climate change, the United Nations' top climate official said. Christiana Figueres, the UN's top climate change official, said she expects the new power plant rules could spur other big emitters such as China and India to begin taking action on climate change and move forward on reaching a deal by the 2015 deadline. The Environmental Protection Agency will roll out the...
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Reducing emissions is the primary way to fight climate change, study finds
2014-06-01 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Click Green: Climate engineering is unlikely to provide an effective or practical solution to slowing global warming, according to a new study. Reducing the release of carbon remains the only likely answer to tackling climate change ahead of fanciful projects such as positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth's atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount of light entering earth's atmosphere. A new report by professors from UCLA and five other universities...
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