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May says text climate change treaty 'weak in about 100 different parts'
2015-11-22 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is warning that a global climate change treaty, to be finalized at a major international summit in Paris next month, is "weak" in about 100 areas. May told CTVs Question Period that she is worried about the deal. Im nervous about the fate of the treaty and about the text that needs to be resolved, which right now is weak in about a 100 different parts that we have to try to put together, said May. Particularly critical for May is Article 17 of the draft...
Christiana Figueres: Thanks for memories, fossil fuels, but now it's time to change
2015-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: For the past 250 years, fossil fuels have been the primary driver of development and growth. Burning fossil fuels has provided us with outstanding progress and opportunities, and I for one am grateful to the many generations of men and women who have so sincerely labored in this sector. However, unbeknownst to all those generations of laborers is that this progress has also put increasing pressure on our planet. We now know that we have precipitated the imbalance of the earth's ecosystem and its...
Alberta set to unveil climate change policy
2015-11-22 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Alberta is set to unveil its long-awaited climate change policy today. The announcement comes 24 hours before Premier Rachel Notley is scheduled to discuss the plan with the federal government in Ottawa and days before she heads to Paris for an international meeting on the issue. Notley has signalled some of the broad outlines the plan is expected to include. The policy, dubbed "Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan," will likely include a price on carbon. Alberta already charges $30 a tonne...
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Climate change is world's most pressing problem
2015-11-22 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oregonian: In 2001, Linfield College hosted F. Sherwood Rowland, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina for their discovery of the chemistry underlying depletion of stratospheric ozone. Sherry Rowland told me that I should develop a course aimed at students majoring in areas outside the sciences, teaching them about stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming. I've been teaching that course nearly every year since then. My students and I have come to conclusions...
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Oakland: Hundreds rally for global action climate change
2015-11-22 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Contra Costa Times: Ilsa Hadda drove -- which might not seem very green -- to a march and rally that highlighted the dangers of carbon emissions and demanded global action on climate change. But at age 91 and needing a cane, Hadda felt she had no choice if she wanted to join others Saturday at the demonstration that called on the world's leaders to do more to promote clean, renewable energy. "It's very important," said Hadda, who lives in Berkeley. "We want to be able to breathe and harvest our own food and live...
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