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Climate change: no quick fix for global warming 'without cutting down carbon emissions'
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Short-term fixing of the global climate will not help, says a new interdisciplinary study by showing how long-term emissions of carbon dioxide and short-lived climate pollutants like methane and sulphur dioxide are related. Soot particles, methane and fluorocarbons originating from fossil fuels, coal mines, cows and diesel engines are called short-lived climate forcers (SLCF) due to their brief lifetime of a few days to a decade. On the other hand carbon dioxide lasts thousands of years in...
Climate change play 2071 aims to make data dramatic
2014-11-05 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How do you dramatise climate change? The obvious route, in recent films and novels, has been to imagine a future dystopia of rising sea levels and ravaged landscapes, where wars are fought over scant resources. The danger is that these sci-fi scenarios can seem so outlandish that they have the effect of distancing us from the present reality. Theatre director Katie Mitchell confronted the subject in 2012 when she and the scientist Stephen Emmott explored the issue of overpopulation. We spent...
Shell executives get slammed at their own climate change conference
2014-11-05 03:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The 18th Annual Chatham House Conference on Climate Change being held today in London is, for better or worse, sponsored by Shell. As one of the world's leading oil and gas companies, Shell hasn't exactly been a friend to the environment, though the company would point out that it encourages sustainable designs like this football field powered by human energy in Brazil. Environmentalist Bill McKibben, the conference's keynote speaker, used his time at the podium to ream out the event's unlikely corporate...
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Protecting communities from potential impacts climate change
2014-11-04 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Given recent international turmoil, climate change may seem like a second-tier priority. In fact, climate change may be accelerating instability in vulnerable areas of the world. There is a growing number of military, intelligence and security leaders who are expressing concern about climate change and weather events as a national security threat. The Pentagon recently released a 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, which states that climate change poses an immediate risk to national security,...
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Hilex Poly announces name change and new brand structure
2014-11-04 17:41:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
U.S.-based plastic bag making giant Hilex Poly has changed the name of its portfolio of branded product lines.
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