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EPA seeks cut in truck emissions in latest climate change push
2015-06-19 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: The Obama administration issued its latest climate change proposal on Friday, calling for a hike in fuel efficiency requirements for heavy-duty trucks in a bid to slash pollution from the vehicles that represent about a fifth of the nations transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed EPA rule comes on the heels of its announcement that it planned to regulate greenhouse gas emission from airplanes and just weeks before it unveils the final climate change rules for the nations...
Climate change wont reduce winter deaths
2015-06-19 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In a study that contradicts the received wisdom on health impacts of climate change, scientists say that we shouldn't expect substantial reduction in winter deaths as a result of global warming. This new research is published today (Friday 19 June) in IOP Publishing's Environmental Research Letters journal. The research team was led by Professor Patrick Kinney of Columbia University in the USA. Professor Kinney said "As Dr Margaret Chan told delegates at the recent World Health Assembly, we need...
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In the footsteps of popes seeking worldly change
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a popes pronouncements on economics and politics? Now, 124 years later, Pope Francis has set off an uproar over his document on the environment and the threat of climate change, an encyclical released Thursday called Laudato Si , or Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common...
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Climate change projects in poorest nations lose out in battle for funds
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Urgent plans to help the world's poorest people become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas are on hold because of a lack of cash in a U.N. climate fund set up for least developed countries, amid fierce competition for limited aid. Projects awaiting support include helping government officials in Bangladesh and Rwanda work out how to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change, and keeping health facilities safe from storms and tidal surges in Pacific Island nations. Other schemes...
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Pope Francis warns climate change human causes & 'grave implications' landmark encyclical
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a historic document addressed to "every person living on this planet," Pope Francis warns that climate change and other forms of environmental degradation have reached a crisis point. Francis frames "Laudato Si'," the first papal encyclical devoted solely to ecological issues, as an "urgent appeal ... for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet." Encyclicals are among the highest forms of Catholic teaching a pontiff can publish. "A very solid scientific consensus...
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