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Factbox: UN issues guide to slow climate change
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Following are main findings by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a report on Sunday saying that time is running out to keep global warming within agreed limits. The 33-page summary, by leading scientists, is meant to guide almost 200 governments which have promised to work out a deal by the end of 2015 to slow climate change. Nations have promised to limit warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, seen as a threshold for more heat waves,...
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Climate Change Adjustments Must Be Fast And Large, U.N. Panel Says
2014-04-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A new report from the United Nations' panel on climate change says major action is needed, and fast, if policy makers want to limit global warming to acceptable levels. There's an international target to control climate change: keeping the global temperature rise to just two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels--that's 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now says it's technically possible to meet that goal. But doing so will require rapid, large-scale shifts...
Cast of Stars Put Face on Climate Change in New Series
2014-04-13 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian A star-studded cast of Hollywood actors will for the first time "put a human face on climate change" in an ambitious new U.S. television series, the show's executive producer says. "Years of Living Dangerously' begins in the U.S. on the Showtime cable network at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday night. The first episode, which features Don Cheadle travelling to Texas to talk about drought with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe and her evangelical preacher husband, can...
Corporations Push for Climate Change Legislation
2014-04-13 14:24:48| Food - Topix.net
Top global and domestic corporations are behind two separate efforts pushing to fast track climate change policies.
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UN calls for drastic action to stop climate change
2014-04-13 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The world must take radical steps to combat climate change, and begin right away -- but if it does, the cost of a greener, healthier future will be surprisingly small. However if the world wishes to avoid ecological catastrophe, it will probably need new technologies that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and bury it underground. This is the message of a new major climate change report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in Berlin on Sunday. Members...
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