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India may set bigger climate change targets before Obama's R-Day visit
2014-12-01 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: In what could pitch the country in to the same league as US and China, India is likely to announce new, bigger and more impactful climate change targets by the time US President Barack Obama visits India as the chief guest for the Republic day in January. The announcement is likely to include an 'aspirational' peaking year for India's greenhouse gas emissions. The move comes after confabulations in the government lead by the Prime Minister's office. The Union cabinet is also expected to clear...
New research highlights the key role of ozone in climate change
2014-12-01 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Many of the complex computer models which are used to predict climate change could be missing an important ozone 'feedback' factor in their calculations of future global warming, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge and published today (1 December) in the journal Nature Climate Change. Computer models play a crucial role in informing climate policy. They are used to assess the effect that carbon emissions have had on the Earth's climate to date, and to predict possible...
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UN Climate Change Talks Begin In Peru
2014-12-01 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: The United States and China announced an agreement earlier this year to reduce carbon emissions, and some observers are predicting the announcement could kick-start a trend of similar commitments from other countries as the annual UN climate conference begins in Peru today. The talks in Lima will focus mostly on a new global climate agreement among 195 nations which is expected to go into effect by the end of 2015. The site of the UN meeting is particularly notable, considering that Peru appears...
Adjusting the Tune on Climate Change
2014-12-01 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For a week in November, people across the United States were complaining bitterly about the cold. Record low temperatures were experienced in 43 states; in some northern regions, residents had to dig tunnels to get out of houses engulfed by as much as seven feet of snow. The freakish cold snap hardly rates in comparison with the devastating floods, fires and droughts that have recently afflicted other parts of the world. But it is another example of how extreme weather has become a global reality,...
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Time For An Oil Change?
2014-12-01 13:24:18| Chemicals - Topix.net
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