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Artist hauls Greenland ice to Paris as a reminder of climate change
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Residents of central Paris got a chilling reminder on Thursday of the challenge facing negotiators at the world climate summit on the city's outskirts: 80 tonnes of Greenland ice left to slowly melt on the cobbles in front of the Pantheon. The ice was scooped from a Greenland fjord and hauled to Paris as part of an installation by the visual artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York City in 2008 and an artificial sky inside the Tate Modern gallery in London in 2003....
Engineering firm sees climate change opportunity in cities
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Dutch engineering company that is helping New York and New Orleans defend themselves against big storms and rising seas says climate change will be a source of business for decades regardless of the outcome of current climate talks in Paris. Arcadis, which doubled sales from 1 billion euros($1.08 billion) to 2 billion in 2007-2014 as it invested heavily in water management, says its future focus will be on 13 of the world's major urban centers threatened either by too much water or too little....
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Americans Sharply Divided On Climate Change, But Most Want U.S. To Lead
2015-12-04 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A LARGE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A PROBLEM - Scott Clement: "A clear but declining majority of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the United States in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with giant partisan disagreement on all aspects of the issue....Sixty-three percent of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the country, slipping from 69 percent in June.[N]early half of Americans, 47 percent, say the federal government should do more...
Why Im optimistic on climate change despite the impossible goals of the Paris talks
2015-12-04 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Only a few days into the UN climate summit, and it is already time to sing the Paris blues. The path to Paris was, unfortunately, paved with pessimism and imperfect accords: Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen. In the meantime, carbon dioxide in the air has increased, raising the worlds average temperature by one degree Celsius relative to pre-industrial times. Looking ahead, the forecast calls for overcast skies. A Paris climate deal is already framed by an impossible goal: a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius,...
Religious leaders step up pressure for action on climate change
2015-12-04 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two years ago Yeb Sano, the Filipino governments lead climate negotiator, broke down in tears in front of the worlds diplomats in Warsaw as typhoon Haiyan ripped through his home city of Tacloban, killing thousands of people. This week he arrived at the Paris climate talks a changed man. No longer a star diplomat, he came on foot after completing a 58-day, 1,500km pilgrimage from Rome. He is now an official adviser to the archbishop of Manila. The politics of climate change are limiting,...
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