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Climate Change Deniers Take Yet Another Hit
2015-02-22 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Climate change deniers don't have a lot of credible scientists who support their view. But they have a few, and one of the busiest and most prolific is Wei-Hock Soon, who insists that global warming is caused by variations in the sun's output, not by anything humans are doing. Soon's doctorate is in aerospace engineering, not atmospheric science or geophysics or some more relevant discipline, but he's nonetheless an actual scientist and a reliable ally for the climate deniers. Unfortunately, the...
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Climate change panel warns New York seas and temperatures will rise destructive level
2015-02-22 05:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Monitor: The end of the century could see a six-foot rise in water level and cause the number of heat waves to triple Although it may seem ludicrous to think about heat waves while the northeast continues to get battered by snowstorms, scientists have revealed new predictions that indicate that the drastic weather across the country will only get worse as climate change gathers steam in the years to come. According to the New York City Panel on Climate Change, an independent organization of climate...
Global 'green club' of companies will fight climate change and poverty
2015-02-22 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: One of Britains leading environmental entrepreneurs, Jeremy Leggett, is setting up a club of companies that will reserve five per cent of their profits for causes that fight climate change and alleviate global poverty. Mr Leggett, who has advised the World Economic Forum on green energy, said that he has already had unsolicited emails of interest from a dozen companies, including some of the biggest in the US, interested in the 5 per cent For-Climate-and-Development Club, which will be launched...
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Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
United Kingdom: Climate change not just an environmental issue
2015-02-21 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The general election means 2015 is a critical year for Britain. It is also a critical year for the world on climate change. Within months of Britain voting, the UN is holding a summit in Paris to agree a binding global agreement to tackle climate change. But there is a real danger that this great chance to achieve action is going to slip by, without the world even noticing. That might suit some politicians at home but it will be a disaster for our country and the world. Over recent months the EU,...
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