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Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse
2015-12-04 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The perennial cry: we need to talk about climate change. And this week, with world leaders in Paris, we have been. But only up to a point. For the likely impact of the rising global population is almost entirely absent, not only from the debate about climate change, but also from that about loss of biological diversity, food and water security, disease, pollution and energy. Lets just remind ourselves of the population statistics of the past half century. In just over half my lifetime, the worlds...
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Deloitte Survey Finds Manufacturing Day 2015 Helped Change Perception of Industry
2015-12-04 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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An economist's take on how to combat climate change
2015-12-04 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: We turn to economists Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund and Martin L. Weitzman of Harvard University for how economics might be able to tackle the immense problem that is climate change. The co-authors of Climate Shock last took to Making Sen$e to make their case for insuring ourselves against global warming by pricing carbon dioxide pollution. Below, Wagner and Weitzman discuss the 2 degree Celsius threshold and offer steps world leaders can take to combat climate change. For...
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U.S. Should Lead Global Fight Against Climate Change, Americans Say
2015-12-04 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Most Americans believe climate change is real, and want the U.S. to take the lead in fighting it, according to a set of HuffPost/YouGov surveys taken during the runup to the Paris climate summit, a meeting of more than 100 world leaders to discuss taking action against climate change. A 52 percent majority of Americans think the U.S. should take a global leadership role in trying to prevent climate change, while 26 percent think it should not, with the rest unsure. Just 28 percent, though,...
Largest utilities avoid Obamaa s corporate pledge on climate change
2015-12-03 22:11:06| Beverages - Topix.net
Duke Energy is among the nation's largest utility companies that have not signed the American Business Act on Climate pledge. As the nation's largest electric power holding company with 7.3 million U.S. customers, Duke Energy says it has set voluntary carbon reduction goals and reduced carbon emissions by 22 percent since 2005.
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