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Years After First Warning U.S. Pres On Climate Change, Communication Challenges Remainate Change ... - Forbes
2015-10-28 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The AAAS website for the symposium notes: On 5 November, 1965, the group now known as the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) cautioned President Lyndon B. Johnson that continued accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting from fossil-fuel burning would almost certainly cause significant changes and could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings. This symposium will reflect on the science, technology, policy, and communication challenges...
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Fossil fuel companies risk plague of 'asbestos' lawsuits as tide turns on climate change
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Oil, gas and coal companies face the mounting risk of legal damages for alleged climate abuse as global leaders signal an end to business-as-usual and draw up sweeping plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Bank of America has warned. nvestors in the City are increasingly concerned that fossil fuel groups and their insurers are on the wrong side of a powerful historical shift and could be swamped with exhorbitant class-action lawsuits along the lines of tobacco and asbestos litigation in the...
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Climate change major security threat but old & bold don't get it
2015-10-28 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NEWS.com.au: CLIMATE change was a sleeper issue for ageing defence brass because potential security impacts were 20 to 30 years away according to former Chief of Defence retired Admiral Chris Barrie. Speaking at a Climate Security summit at the Australian Defence Force Academy Admiral Barrie, who is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, said older military leaders tended to downplay the potential risk from climate change. "I think there are a lot of people in the 40-year-old and...
Climate Change Threatens an Iconic Desert Tree
2015-10-28 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Close your eyes and imagine a species living in a harsh environment threatened by climate change. If you conjured up a polar bear, Cameron Barrows has a suggestion: Consider, instead, the Joshua tree-the gnarly icon of the Southwest's Mojave Desert that looks like it sprang from a Dr. Seuss book. "Animals living in the Arctic get a lot more attention than plants in arid lands, but desert plants like the Joshua tree are also threatened by a changing climate," says Barrows, a research ecologist...
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Climate change: what are you doing to reduce your carbon footprint?
2015-10-28 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders will meet in Paris next month for the latest climate summit, where they will discuss a possible new global agreement to tackle global warming. But what, if anything, are ordinary people doing about their own carbon emissions? Current commitments on greenhouse gas emissions run out in 2020, so in Paris governments from more than 190 nations will need to decide what happens for the decade after that at least, and potentially beyond. The Guardian and five other European newspapers...
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