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How Anxiety Around Climate Change Blocks Us From Taking Action
2015-12-05 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: While most scientists agree that we haven't yet reached the point of no return on climate change, we're getting alarmingly close. The warnings have been issued, and the message is loud and clear: Our individual and collective inaction may lead to unimaginable consequences. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cautioned that without urgent action on climate change, we face a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally," while Greenpeace estimates...
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Draft climate change deal lowers greenhouse gases by 2050
2015-12-05 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: Earth just took a tentative step toward a new, comprehensive plan for improving the environment. Representatives from 195 countries have approved a draft UN climate change agreement that will ask all participants to lower their carbon dioxide emissions. There are still many, many details left to resolve ahead of a final deal (ideally signed next week), but the ultimate goal is to have countries reduce their greenhouse gas levels by 2050, and to eliminate emissions completely between 2060 and 2080....
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Paris climate change talks yield first draft amid air of optimism
2015-12-05 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Negotiators paving the way for a global climate change agreement in Paris have cleared a major hurdle, producing a draft accord in record time and raising hopes that a full week of minister-led talks can now clinch a deal despite many sticking points. No part of the deal has been finalised because in the end it is likely to be a tradeoff between developing countries demands particularly for financing to help cope with the impacts of locked-in climate change and wealthier nations insistence...
Growing Connection Between Climate Change, Terrorism Affect Politics
2015-12-05 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Is it possible that we should prepare against other threats besides terrorists? Maybe we should be concerned about other problems as well. Those were fateful words when Al Gore spoke them in An Inconvenient Truth, his 2005 film about global warming. The U.S. was at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fear of another 9/11 was still very real. But only a few politicians were beginning to view climate change as a threat to global security equal or greater than terrorism. Its 2015, and the landscape...
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Climate change: These 25 stocks are part of the solution
2015-12-05 13:47:27| Railroads - Topix.net
Merrill Lynch has a 'buy' rating on Canadian National Railway, one of three Canadian companies that made the list. Merrill Lynch has a 'buy' rating on Canadian National Railway, one of three Canadian companies that made the list.
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