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Sceptics 'winning' climate argument
2013-09-26 02:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: In the run up to a key global warming report, those sceptical of mainstream opinion on climate change claim they are "winning" the argument. They say a slowing of temperature rises in the past 15 years means the threat from climate change is exaggerated. But a leading member of the UN's panel on climate change said the views of sceptics were "wishful thinking". The pause in warming was a distraction, he said, from the growing scientific certainty about long-term impacts. Prof Jean Pascal...
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Leading climate change scientist brands sceptics 'irrational'
2013-09-24 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change sceptics who claim the dangers of global warming are small and far-off are "unscientific" and "irrational", and should not dissuade governments from tackling rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions, the author of the world's landmark review of economics and climate change said. Lord Nicolas Stern told the Guardian: "It is astonishing, irrational and unscientific to suggest the risks are small. How can they say they know the risks are small? The clear conclusion from 200 years of...
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Warming 'pause' gives thought for scientists, sceptics
2013-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate sceptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by UN experts on Friday. Over the past 15 years, the world's average surface temperature rose far slower than many climate models have predicted. According to projections, global warming should go in lockstep with the ever-rising curve of heat-trapping carbon emissions. But in recent years, warming has lagged. So, where has the missing heat gone? For climate sceptics,...
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Charles: 'Climate change sceptics are turning Earth into dying patient'
2013-05-09 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is assuming a growing number of the duties of what is supposed to be an apolitical monarchy. Hosting a two-day conference for forest scientists at St James's Palace in London, the Prince of Wales satirised those who stand in the way of climate action, characterising...
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United Kingdom: Prince Charles hits out at climate change sceptics
2013-05-09 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: World leaders must "act now" to protect the rainforests or risk the Earth becoming a dying patient, the Prince of Wales has warned. In a speech to ministers and tropical forest scientists, he said his work on climate change could be "disheartening" but action was needed because the risk of doing nothing was "too great". "The doctor must act on what evidence is already there," Prince Charles said. But one climate-sceptic think tank has dismissed his comments as "poisoning". 'Act of suicide'...
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