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Modi no climate change pressure India after US-China pact
2015-01-25 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday India was not under pressure on climate change after the US and China signed an emissions deal, but added global warming itself was reason to take action. India, the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has resisted pressure to commit to a timeline for capping emissions after China and the United States announced a bilateral pact in November. "India is an independent country. There is no pressure as such," Modi said after talks with...
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US And India Announce 'Cooperation' On Climate Change
2015-01-25 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday that the two countries will work together to fight global climate change, laying out a set of goals that the two countries hope "will expand policy dialogues and technical work on clean energy and low greenhouse gas emissions technologies." While not a concrete emissions reductions agreement like the one Obama reached with China this past November, the deal includes efforts to cooperate on reducing emissions of fluorinated...
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Smerconish to Santorum: Is Your Answer on Climate Change 'Do Nothing'?
2015-01-25 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mediaite: State of the Union guest-host Michael Smerconish challenged potential 2016 GOP candidate Rick Santorum to explain his climate policy in the wake of a trolltastic two-step this week that found the Senate voting almost unanimously that climate change exists but then denying that it was man-made. Santorum agreed with the Senate`s take of a planet that`s warming by coinkidink. "Is there anything the United States can do?" Santorum wondered. "Clearly no. Even the folks who accept all of the science...
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Climate Change Could Turn Chicago into Texas, Report Claims
2015-01-25 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNAinfo: Last year was the hottest on record, and if climate change persists, it could get a lot worse, a new report claims, warning Chicago's climate could mirror that of modern-day Texas by the end of the century. The report, part of a study examining climate change called the Risky Business Project, was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Paulson Institute and TomKat Charitable Trust, and examined how climate change may affect the Midwest, its cities, communities agriculture and businesses. "Rising...
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Nick Stern Is Wrong; Climate Change Is Not The Largest Market Failure The World Has Ever Seen
2015-01-25 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The takeaway line from the Stern Review, Sir Nicholas Sterns (now Lord Stern) investigation into climate change and what, if anything , we might do about it, is that climate change is the largest market failure the world has ever seen. My argument here is that this simply isnt true. No, this doesnt mean that I think the Stern Review itself is wrong. I think theres a lot that is wrong with it, certainly, and I have since I first read it on the day it was released. The estimations of future emissions...
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