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Coal the future, insists Abbott as UN calls action on climate change
2014-11-04 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, has stood by his defence of coal, saying it is the foundation of Australias foreseeable future, just days after a United Nations climate report called for an urgent reduction in carbon emissions. For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of our prosperity. Coal is the foundation of the way we live because you cant have a modern lifestyle without energy, the prime minister said on Tuesday. You cant have a modern economy without energy...
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Climate change will 'transform the planet'
2014-11-03 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3 News: The United Nations delivered its sharpest warning to date about climate change today. It says we need to stop burning fossil fuels by the end of the century, or face catastrophic consequences. It's being called the most important ever document on climate change and the prognosis for humanity is grim: stop burning fossil fuels by 2100, or risk catastrophic warming that's a global rise in average temperatures of up to 5degC. "If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, we...
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Australia: G20 climate change ad banned by Brisbane airport 'because it was political'
2014-11-03 06:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The board of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), which has two directors with interests in fossil fuel companies, says they had no influence on a decision to reject a billboard calling for action on climate change. The airports decision did not reflect any value judgement about a message aimed at world leaders arriving for the G20 summit this month, a BAC spokeswoman said, but was driven by a policy not to allow billboards with a political intent. She said neither the board nor individual directors...
IPCC report warns governments on failure to check climate change
2014-11-03 05:06:33| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The message from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is loud and unequivocal: the window of opportunity for the world to stave off the severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts of global warming is limited. In a report, the IPCC said climate change, resulting from human action-induced global warming, is not a problem of the future and many of its adverse effects are already and increasingly evident. The report released in Copenhagen on Sunday sends a clear message to governments...
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Climate change will soon be irreversible
2014-11-03 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: The world faces a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible" impacts from climate change without action to cut emissions, a major international report has warned. Experts warned there was little time before the window of opportunity to limit temperature rises to below dangerous levels closed, and that delaying action would greatly increase the costs. The warning came as the United Nations climate body published the final report of its latest assessment on the science of climate...
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