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Climate change is divisive. Climate solutions are not
2014-05-14 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On the first Earth Day in 1970, environmental sentiment was proudly worn and fiercely optimistic. It tapped into a deep concern for our future shared by young and old; rich and poor; left, right, and center. Now, as the world faces an accelerating global climate crisis, political will has faded and divided. Grand bargains are far from view. And failure to find common ground and cut carbon pollution could tank the biosphere in ways we cant imagine. And yet, today, Im hopeful. Even though almost...
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Swifter Combat Against Climate Change Required Per Former U.S Military Leaders
2014-05-14 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Seven years ago a group of senior retired generals broke new ground when they warned climate change poses a serious security threat. Now, those top military leaders say the U.S. and others have not done enough to prepare for the challenge. Writing in a major new report out today, the 16-man military team--including retired four-star Adm. Frank Lee "Skip" Bowman, former director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program; retired Gen. Charles "Chuck" Wald, former deputy commander of the United States...
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Applied Materials Adds Cobalt to Chips for "Significant Materials Change"
2014-05-14 16:07:40| Semiconductors - Topix.net
In recent months, most of the buzz about cobalt in the technology space has centered on how the metal will play into Tesla Motors' decision to build a $5-billion lithium -ion battery "gigafactory" in the Southwest United States.
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Facing similar risks, Africa & Asia coordinate research on climate change
2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists from Africa and Asia will collaborate on research into climate risks in order to share knowledge between regions and help vulnerable communities adapt. Speaking at the launch of the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) in Kathmandu on April 30, leaders of the organisations involved in the new programme said that demographic trends and climate measurements in similar environments across both regions indicate that a large number of people and their...
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Climate change: Has science finally won debate?
2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate scientists are canaries in the coalmine - highly attuned to sense danger before we blunder into it. For decades, various researchers have issued calamitous warnings about climate change. But was there a moment when science collectively, definitively, dropped off the perch? During the 1990s, scientists were still debating the most basic assertions of climate change science. Was the world indeed warming? Consensus was growing, but slowly and many scientists remained undecided. Two bold...
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