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El Nino will fade, but climate change will be with us for decades
2016-01-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The UN weather agency has confirmed 2015 global temperatures were 1C higher than the pre-industrial average. That brought weather extremes including heatwaves, flooding and severe drought, in a sign of things to come as growing greenhouse gas emissions trap energy in the Earth`s systems. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years on record occurred this century, said the World Meteorological Organization, showing a clear upward trend. "An exceptionally strong El Nino and global warming caused by greenhouse...
Carbon Pricing and Climate Change
2016-01-25 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Re "Proof That a Price on Carbon Works" (editorial, Jan. 19): It was heartening to read your editorial, just the latest sign that carbon pricing is becoming a more popular option for tackling climate change. Adopting an economywide tax will have the most impact in addressing climate change, changing industrial behavior and shifting away from fossil fuels. Any tax must be set high enough to induce change in our energy mix, but not so high that energy prices skyrocket. To protect growth, any...
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Climate change negotiations, is Africa benefitting?
2016-01-25 04:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NewsDay: AFRICAN countries appear to have unwavering interests in climate change negotiations especially those international ones such as the recent UNCOP21 held in Paris in December 2015. The nature of excitement coupled with phony expectations have left a lot of neutrals wondering as to what exactly is in store for the African continent. It is common knowledge that in any given country, there is not much political will to tackle climate change head-on but when it comes to attending these international...
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Marco Rubio opposes climate change measures
2016-01-25 01:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Marco Rubio told a crowd here that he does not support policy aimed at curbing climate change, saying Sunday it will "destroy" the American economy without helping the environment. During a town hall meeting, Bob Klause of Cedar Rapids told the Florida senator he believes global warming is a "hoax," a word that Rubio countered. "It's not in this following sense: The climate has always changed," Rubio said. "There's never been a time when the climate has not been changing." Rubio said that,...
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Don't ignore signs of hope on climate change
2016-01-24 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Sentinel: I've always thought of New Year's Eve as a time for celebrating the past year and setting our sights on what more we could do in the next one. Instead, Journal Sentinel columnist Ernst-Ulrich Franzen uses his year-ending column to cast a pall of pessimism on some of the year's most promising climate policy changes ("My pessimism on climate change," Dec. 21). Most of Franzen's column reads like the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. Sure, it's easy to cast doubt on the efforts of citizens,...
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