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Most Climate Change Damage Will Happen Before the Two-Degrees Warming Threshold
2015-12-12 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Most discourse regarding climate change is based around a simple premise: The more the Earth warms, the greater the damage done to the planet. But in new paper published in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers found that presupposition is fundamentally flawed. The reality, they write, is more ominous. Almost all the damage from climate change to vulnerable categories like coral reefs, freshwater availability and plantlife could happen before two degrees Celsius warming, the internationally...
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James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'
2015-12-12 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Mere mention of the Paris climate talks is enough to make James Hansen grumpy. The former Nasa scientist, considered the father of global awareness of climate change, is a soft-spoken, almost diffident Iowan. But when he talks about the gathering of nearly 200 nations, his demeanor changes. Its a fraud really, a fake, he says, rubbing his head. Its just bullshit for them to say: Well have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years. Its just worthless words....
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Paris climate deal marks 'opportunity to change the world'
2015-12-12 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Paris climate deal is an opportunity to change the world, François Hollande has said as he urged negotiators at the UN talks to adopt the final text of an agreement that will provide powerful momentum to efforts to curb climate change. Encouraging countries to sign the deal, the French president said: We have to take that last step; the step that would enable us to reach our goal. And this would be a decisive step. Live Paris climate talks: French hosts release text of final deal live...
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Green MP Caroline Lucas hails climate change agreement saying will speed up switch renewables
2015-12-12 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UKs only Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, has said she hopes the new climate change agreement will mean countries will make the switch to renewable energy faster. Delegates from over 190 countries have produced a draft agreement to cut fuel emissions - the details of which are due to be announced in a press conference on Saturday morning. Ministers finally came to an agreement at around 6:45am local time (5:45am GMT) which is believed to include the pledge to reduce temperature rises to...
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El Salvador: coastal communities fight tide of climate change in pictures
2015-12-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Predictions that rising seas could destroy over a quarter of El Salvadors coastal areas have left people living along the countrys shoreline facing a bleak future
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