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As Mexico Addresses Climate Change, Critics Point to Shortcomings
2014-11-29 23:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For six years, while drought ravaged Chihuahua State, Mario Ruiz clung to his small herd of cattle. The pasture where his cattle graze, about 45 miles north of the city of Chihuahua, turned bare. Many of his cows starved. Others he sold to buy fodder for those worth saving. Of 130 cows, just 30 are left. Now that the rains have returned, turning the dusty steppe a rich green, farmers like Mr. Ruiz, 41, are struggling to restock their herds and dig themselves out of debt. They fret that the drought,...
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Could geoengineering make climate change worse?
2014-11-29 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Geoengineering which sometimes seems to be the despairing climate scientists Plan B simply wont work. It wont offer a quick fix to the planets burden of global warming, and it will be difficult to convince anybody that it could work at all. Geoengineering is any deliberate, large-scale intervention in the workings of the climate machine that might offer a way of containing global warming. The accent is on the word deliberate. Humans are already engineering the climate just by continuously...
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UN Expert: Lima Climate Change Talks Key stepping stone
2014-11-29 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telesur: The outcomes of the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru will likely determine the agenda for all future negotiations. As world leaders prepare to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, on Monday, a top UN official issued a statement today emphasizing the event as an opportunity to pave the way towards reaching the goal of adopting a new legal instrument at its next meeting, in Paris in December 2015 (COP 21). Never before have the risks of climate...
Climate change talks offer India new opportunity
2014-11-29 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The air in Delhi is getting thicker. As winter nears, the smog in India's capital city stifles and suffocates. It grounds airplanes. And it kills. Outdoor air pollution is the fifth leading cause of death in India, according to a study showing it led to 627,000 premature deaths in 2010 alone. There is some hope for a path through the smog, however. A new round of global climate talks begins Monday in Lima, Peru. The ideal end game is an agreement in 2015 to take bold action on climate change....
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UN climate change talks in Lima to set stage Paris summit
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: Representatives from almost 200 nations have begun arrive in Peru for UN climate talks that get underway on Monday. Representatives from almost 200 nations have begun arriving in the Peruvian capital, Lima, for UN climate talks that get underway on Monday. Delegates will meet for 10 days to work on a new deal to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions, meant to be agreed at a summit in Paris in December next year. Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework...
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