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Pope Francis: Acting Climate Change Essential Faith
2015-01-15 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis will be touring the Philippines today, including a visit with survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, which was devastated by the typhoon that killed 6,300 people in 2013. Catholic organizations around the world are taking this opportunity to call on the pope and Catholics worldwide to take meaningful action on climate change. A new initiative, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, has formed in response to man-made climate change. The organization is made up of laity, religious...
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Russia's forests overlooked in climate change fight
2015-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russia's forests may lose their power to help curb global warming without stronger domestic protection and a place in a new global climate change deal, scientists have warned. Russia has 19 percent of world forest reserves by surface area. But experts say the U.N. process drafting the climate change pact, due to be agreed at the end of 2015, has concentrated mainly on tropical forests. "Boreal forests are getting far too little attention in the U.N. climate talks," said Yury Safonov, a senior...
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Pope says climate change mostly man's fault
2015-01-15 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis said on Thursday he believed that man was primarily responsible for climate change and that he hoped this year's Paris conference would take a courageous stand to protect the environment. The Pope said his long-awaited encyclical on the environment was almost finished and that he hoped it would be published in June, ahead of the U.N. climate meeting in Paris in November. Speaking to reporters on the plane taking him from Sri Lanka to Manila, he was asked specifically if man was mostly...
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How cities in Asia could drastically slow climate change
2015-01-15 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: Cities--the best of which are bastions of transit networks, bike paths, compact apartments and chirpy baristas--are growing faster than litters of sewer rats, exacerbating their already-high hungers for energy. The trend is so steep that a new analysis projects that urban centers will be burning through three times more energy in the year 2050 than was the case in 2005. But what sounds like a threat could also be viewed as an opportunity. The new study, by five European and American researchers...
Pope on Climate Change: Man Has 'Slapped Nature in Face'
2015-01-15 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Pope Francis said Thursday he is convinced that global warming is "mostly" man-made and that he hopes his upcoming encyclical on the environment will encourage negotiators at a climate change meeting in Paris to make "courageous" decisions to protect God's creation. Francis has spoken out frequently about the "culture of waste" that has imperiled the environment and he elaborated en route to the Philippines. While there, Francis will meet with survivors of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, which the government...
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