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Minimum CO2 price of $32 needed to curb warming, study shows

2014-06-16 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A global carbon price of at least $32 (24 euros) per tonne is needed by 2015 to apply an effective brake on global warming -- almost five times today's European market rate, a study said Monday. Co-authored by British economist Nicholas Stern, an authority on the costs of climate change, the report reviewed a widely-used model for assessing risk and found it led to a "gross underassessment" of danger. This beefs up the case for strong cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, helped by a carbon price "in...

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Act Up Protests CDC to Curb Transmission of HIV

2014-06-13 19:58:49| Biotech - Topix.net

On Monday, June 9, members of ACT UP NY, along with Treatment Action Group and Atlanta allies, met with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention 's HIV prevention personnel in Atlanta.

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Americans by 2-to-1 Would Pay More to Curb Climate Change

2014-06-10 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Americans are willing to bear the costs of combating climate change, and most are more likely to support a candidate seeking to address the issue. By an almost two-to-one margin, 62 percent to 33 percent, Americans say they would pay more for energy if it would mean a reduction in pollution from carbon emissions, according to the Bloomberg National Poll. While Republicans were split, with 46 percent willing to pay more and 49 percent opposed to it, 82 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of independents...

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Poll: Public supports Obama plan curb coal plant emissions

2014-06-03 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Post-Intelligencer: A healthy but not top heavy majority of Americans support the Obama administrations plan to cut Americas carbon emissions into the atmosphere by 30 percent in the next decade, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. A coal power plant in Ohio. Power plants are responsible fore more than 40 percent of Americas carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The Obama administration is seeking to cut those emissions by 30 percent. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would allow states...

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