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Climate change report: "extremely likely" humans are responsible
2013-09-27 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Human activity has caused at least half of climate change in the last half-century, hundreds of scientists say. They are 95% certain of this, the surest they've ever been, says a United Nations report published Friday. That activity? Driving cars, running power plants on coal and oil, torching swathes of forestland and debris; anything involving burning carbon-based fuels and emitting greenhouse gases. We are seeing the consequences already in extreme weather patterns, particularly drought and...
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Experts 95 per cent certain 'humans are responsible for global warming'
2013-09-24 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The world's foremost authority on the greenhouse effect, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will release its most comprehensive study to date on Friday in Stockholm. The volume is expected to paint a bleak picture of climate change in the coming decades and make long-term projections for the melting of Arctic sea ice and the warning of ocean acidification. "The scientific evidence of ... climate change has strengthened year after year, leaving few uncertainties apart from...
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Socially responsible factory has high hopes for Haiti
2013-09-02 13:35:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A new garment factory hoping to change the approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the apparel industry is to start production this month in Haiti, in a move that could also boost the country's reputation as a sourcing destination.
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UK: Most alcohol packaging responsible - Portman Group
2013-08-30 13:35:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Around 90% of UK alcoholic drinks tested for responsible packaging have passed an audit, industry watchdog the Portman Group has revealed.
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Is the Pacific Ocean Responsible for a Pause in Global Warming?
2013-08-28 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: From the 1940s through the 1970s there was no major warming trend in the average surface temperature of Earth. At the same time, the tropical Pacific Ocean, which is responsible for the weather patterns known as El Nio and La Nia that can swing global average temperatures by as much as 0.3 degree Celsius, was anomalously cold. For the past decade or so the tropical Pacific has again gone cold--more Nia than Nio--and a new study suggests that the phenomenon may explain the recent "pause" in global...
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