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How 2°C of Warming Could Reshape the U.S
2015-07-09 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If, as suggested by a comprehensive new review in the journal Science, 2°C of global warming would lock in at least 20 feet (6 meters) of eventual sea level rise, what would that warming mean for the future and heritage of the U.S.? It would mean a map we don't recognize: Louisiana would shed its boot, the Eastern seaboard would seriously retract, and the Bay Area would grow a second inland bay -- as the nation would lose more than 48,000 square miles of land, home today to 23.4 million people....
Will Pope Francis' encyclical reshape world's climate debate?
2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Toward the beginning of his landmark encyclical, "Laudato Si'," Pope Francis writes, "I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of the planet." Yesterday, a dialogue was what he got. Reactions poured in from around the world to Francis' call for humanity to step away from a consumption-driven society that, in his mind, has caused the Earth "to look more and more like an immense pile of filth." President Obama issued a statement saying he "deeply admire[d] the...
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UN Secretary-General urges transport ministers to reshape worlds transport systems
2015-05-27 15:55:40| Green Car Congress
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The big melt: Antarctica's retreating ice may reshape Earth
2015-02-28 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging thousands of feet below to re-shape Earth. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea - 130 billion tons of ice per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. That's the weight of more than 356,000 Empire State Buildings,...
Here's What Happened to the Lobbyists Who Tried to Reshape the U.S. View of Climate Change
2015-02-27 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In early 1998, some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world were hatching a plan to hijack the science of human-caused global warming. Representatives from major fossil fuel corporations and industry groups had joined forces with operatives from major conservative think tanks and public relations experts to draft what they called their Global Climate Science Communications (GCSC) plan. In a memo the plan boldly declared its goal would be to convince a majority of the American public...