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United Kingdom: Ed Miliband lambasts PM for 'ignoring advice on climate change'
2014-12-07 01:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: David Cameron has "abdicated responsibility" on the environment and left Britain trailing the world on climate change, Ed Miliband says today. Ahead of UN climate talks in Peru this week, the Labour leader, writing for The Independent on Sunday, launches a savage attack on the Prime Minister for turning the UK from being a world leader on environmental targets into a "laggard" because Mr Cameron believes it is no longer a "fashionable" subject and Conservative MPs are "flirting with climate change...
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls on India put forth commitments on climate change
2014-12-07 01:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on India, the world's third-largest emitter, to spell out its nationally determined commitment on reducing emissions by June, saying a "constructive" role played by it will make a universal climate agreement possible in Paris next year. Against the backdrop of significant announcements by the US and China on limiting greenhouse gases, the Secretary General looks to India to also announce its own Intended Nationally Determined Commitment (INDCs) by June next year...
Climatologist: Climate change drastically affect Neb. ag
2014-12-06 19:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kearney Hub: The heart of America was colored in dark shades of red reflecting extreme to exceptional drought on the Sept. 11, 2012, National Drought Monitor map Don Wilhite showed on a screen Friday morning at the Nebraska Farmers Unions 101st-annual convention in Kearney. The summer of 2012, McCook had 37 days with high temperatures of more than 100 degrees, compared with a long-term average of around 11 days. Groundwater levels in some areas of Nebraska dropped 5 to 12 feet. What the models say is by the...
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A guide to Lima climate change talks
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The most crucial battles in the fight against climate change are unfolding now in Lima, Peru. That's where negotiators from around the world are hashing out issues of fairness and finance to sketch out an effective climate treaty that would push greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century. What's Happening Representatives from more than 190 nations are meeting for talks in Lima, Peru (Dec. 1 Dec. 14) to hammer out the draft of the first truly global pact to avoid the worst effects of climate...
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Mapping Rain Forests to Fight Climate Change
2014-12-06 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Almost a century ago, Russian botanist N.I. Vavilov was traveling the world in search of new species when he identified why equatorial rain forests are so critical to the Earths future: Theyre the source-pool for 90 percent of the planets biodiversity. Rain forests have been the focus of global conservation efforts ever since. Today, as climate negotiators convene for the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 in Lima, Perua country that is dead-center in that genetically rich belt of land around...
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