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Liberals: Stop Your Climate-Change Hectoring
2016-01-12 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Good news for climate advocates: Researchers have new clues about what's stopping the public from caring more about global warming. Bad news for climate advocates: They're part of the problem. The December issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology focuses on how to encourage "pro-environmental behavior." In example after example, researchers show how governments, politicians and companies have framed climate change and its solutions in ways that seem intuitive but often fail -- and can...
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A historic climate-change deal has been unveiled Paris
2015-12-12 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: After months of preparation and weeks of negotiation, world leaders have reached a climate-change deal at this year's Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris. It is the most ambitious international agreement ever to face up to the threat of global warming, as the final text of the deal makes clear. Here are the main points: An aim to keep global mean temperature within 1.5°C of that which existed before the industrial era. This is a more ambitious goal that the 2°C goal that nearly 200 governments...
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Meet the woman who helped seal uprecedented climate-change pact
2015-12-12 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: For nearly two weeks, world leaders have been arguing over the minutiae of a deal on the new global strategy to counter climate change. Earlier today (Dec. 12), the final text of this year's climate-change resolution in Paris was signed, sealed, and delivered, as is customary for any United Nations (UN) agreement, in six official languages. And later in the day, in a surprising and historic first, the agreement was also ratified by all 195 countries involved in the negotiations. Finally, Christina...
US Proposes Raising Spending on Climate-Change Adaptation
2015-12-09 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In an effort to help smooth the passage of a sweeping new climate accord here this week, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Wednesday a proposal to double its grant-based public finance for climate-change adaptation by 2020 to $860 million, from $430 million. Mr. Kerrys announcement came as the momentum toward a deal appeared to have hit a momentary snag. Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister who is presiding over the talks, delayed by two hours a self-imposed 1 p.m. deadline to release...
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Climate-change naysayers better at war of words, study finds
2015-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate-change opponents are better at spreading their point of view than those who see climate change as real and troublesome, according to a study underlining the challenge of rallying public support as world leaders meet in Paris to discuss the environmental threat. The naysayers did well at changing the minds of both liberal and conservative Americans in a study of about 1,600 U.S. adults conducted by Michigan State University researchers. Respondents were asked to read fabricated news...
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