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UN Climate Change Report: Governments Should Act Now
2013-09-30 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met this week to discuss the latest on climate change and issued a report, adding that it should serve as a "wake-up call" to governments and society about the role of humans play in increasing global warming. Over 800 authors from 39 countries contributed to the working group's 2,500-page assessment, which draws on millions of observations and numerical data from climate model simulations. In its first report for six years, the Intergovernmental...
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World leaders must act faster on climate change
2013-09-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Governments and businesses should be left in no doubt about the dangers of delaying further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions following the publication of the new assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A summary of the report, approved by 195 governments on Friday, points out that if we want a 50 per cent chance of avoiding global warming of more than 2C, which countries have agreed would be dangerous, we cannot emit in total more than between 820bn and 1,445bn tonnes...
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No more denial. Time to act on climate change
2013-09-28 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: In his recent book Ten Billion, Stephen Emmott posed an intriguing question: what would happen if humanity discovered tomorrow that there was an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, one that would bring calamity on a precise date several decades in the future? An event like that could result in the eradication of a large chunk of life on Earth and would surely galvanise the planet, argued Emmott. Every scientist, engineer, university and business leader would be enlisted to find ways to deflect...
IPCC climate report: 'the heat is on we must act'
2013-09-27 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders must now respond to an "unequivocal" message from climate scientists and act with policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations secretary-general urged on Friday. "The heat is on. We must act," said Ban Ki-moon, as he invited world leaders to a special summit next year to forge a global agreement on emissions. The world's leading climate scientists, who have been meeting in all-night sessions this week in the Swedish capital, said there was no longer room for doubt...
Anti-GMO Campaigners Claim Victory as 'Monsanto Protection Act' Stripped From Senate Bill
2013-09-26 09:23:03| Biotech - Topix.net
An amendment dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act," which currently allows large agriculture and biotech corporations to ignore court orders involving the safety of genetically modified seeds, has been stripped from Senate's spending bill that could be voted on as early as Wednesday afternoon.
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