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Around the world, strong reactions to climate-change report
2013-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: A new report on climate change, which said leading scientists are more certain than ever that humankind is the main culprit behind global warming, has sparked intense reaction. Here's a sampling: Canadian reaction: In responding to the report, the federal Conservatives took aim at their political opponents, saying previous Liberal governments did nothing and New Democrats want to kill jobs with a cap-and-trade system. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Canada is playing a leadership...
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Around the world, strong reactions to climate-change report
2013-09-27 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: A new report on climate change, which said leading scientists are more certain than ever that humankind is the main culprit behind global warming, has sparked intense reaction. Here's a sampling: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the study was a call for governments, many of which have been focused on spurring weak growth rather than fighting climate change, to work to agree on a planned UN accord in 2015 to combat global warming. "The heat is on. Now we must act," he said....
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Climate-Change Deniers Misinterpret Data, UNs Figueres Says
2013-09-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Critics of efforts to address climate change are misinterpreting a slowdown in the pace of global warming, the United Nations top climate official said. Those who deny mankinds contribution to warming have a primitive understanding of the science behind the Earths climate, Christiana Figueres, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said today in an interview. She spoke a day ahead of the release of the groups updated assessment of climate science. It will show a slowdown in...
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Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report
2013-09-26 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: At a closed-door meeting in Stockholm this week, each paragraph of a document written by scientists is being projected onto large screens. Delegations from scores of nations participate in the editing: Words will be substituted, emphasis will be added, entire sentences may well be inserted or deleted. After four days of haggling, the media will be summoned by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to a news conference on Friday where the final version of the document--known...
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David Suzuki: Attacks on climate-change science hinder solutions
2013-09-25 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straight: Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians have unleashed a barrage of attacks designed to discredit the science before its released. Expect more to come. Many news outlets are complicit in efforts to undermine the scientific evidence. Contrarian opinion articles have run in publications in Canada and around the world, from the Financial Post and Washington Post...
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