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Study finds econ costs climate change hugely underestimated
2015-03-31 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Look at most climate change projection graphs and you will see a smoothly rising red line of increasing temperature, melting ice and other impacts. But climate does not work that way. Studies of the paleoclimate record indicate that when heat energy is rapidly added to the atmosphere -- as humans are doing today -- the climate can experience tipping points, with abrupt shifts and potentially disastrous results. Researchers who have studied economic climate change impacts have until recently...
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UN: Climate Change Costs to Poor Underestimated
2014-12-05 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the U.N.'s environment agency said Friday ? and that assumes a best-case scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced. "If you don't cut emissions, we're just going to have to ask for more money because the damage is going to be worse," Ronald Jumeau of the Seychelles said at U.N. climate talks. The report was bound to sharpen disputes in Lima...
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Airport runway cost 'underestimated'
2014-11-11 09:17:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Plans to build new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick will cost substantially more than the bidders have estimated, the Airports Commission says.
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VIDEO: Asia's poverty 'underestimated'
2014-10-15 06:06:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The number of people who live in poverty across the Asia-Pacific region is being vastly underestimated according to the Asian Development Bank.
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Southern Hemisphere ocean warming 'underestimated'
2014-10-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Hidden heat Previous estimates of global ocean warming have been significantly underestimated due to historically sparse temperature data from the Southern Ocean, new research has found. The study, led by Australian oceanographer Dr Paul Durack from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was published online today in Nature Climate Change.. They analysed satellite observations of sea surface height changes along with ocean temperature data collected between 1970...
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