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Paris climate talks: Tim Flannery optimistic global agreement will be reached
2015-11-25 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian Climate Council chief Tim Flannery says he is optimistic world leaders will reach a global agreement on climate change during talks in Paris next week. The council will release a report today outlining the growth of renewable energy in the past six years. Professor Flannery said the booming industry was proof the world was willing and able to step up to the challenge of addressing climate change. "Circumstances have changed between the Copenhagen meeting in 2009 and the Paris meeting...
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Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
2015-11-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris in an attempt to reach a deal that will have critical implications for our species. At the COP21 climate talks, they will try to find a formula for reducing the worlds carbon emissions and give humanity an evens chance of holding global warming to a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels. Past efforts to negotiate such deals have been riddled with frustration and failures, in particular the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, which ended in disarray....
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11.11: Tim Flannery
2015-10-14 00:04:01| Powells Books Events Calendar
A decade after his groundbreaking book The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery argues that earth's climate system is fast approaching a crisis, but that there is a promising "third way" forward. Drawing on the latest science, Atmosphere of Hope (Atlantic Monthly) gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and, more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a "third way" of soft geo-engineering.
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