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UN chief tolls bell for climate change skeptics
2016-09-04 05:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that climate change scepticism is over, the day after the United States joined China to ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions. Climate change skeptics dispute the widely held understanding that excessive levels of emissions in the atmosphere cause global warming and harm the environment, and have become increasingly side-lined at international summits. "The debate over climate phenomenon is over scientifically and environmentally,"...
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U.S., China commit to global climate pact
2016-09-04 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democrat-Gazette: President Barack Obama and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement, hailing their new era of climate cooperation as the best chance for saving the planet. At a ceremony on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit, Obama and Xi, representing the world's two biggest carbon emitters, delivered a series of documents to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The papers certified that the U.S. and China have taken...
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Soaring population raises climate concerns
2016-09-02 08:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Human numbers are predicted to grow by 33% in the next 33 years and that is worrying news for a world already struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change. By 2050, there could be 9.9 billion people alive on the planet, and the global total is expected to hit 10 bn by 2053, according to the latest calculations by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a private not-for-profit organisation based in the US. By 2050, the population of Africa will reach 2.5 billion, which was roughly...
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Sadiq Khan and megacity mayors urge G20 climate change action
2016-09-02 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has joined forces with city leaders from around the world to call on governments to take urgent action on climate change. Ahead of a meeting of the G20 group of leading nations in Hangzhou, China, 30 mayors from cities including London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro called on national leaders to work with them to build a low carbon, climate safe world. They welcomed government moves to secure the Paris Agreement, the worlds first comprehensive...
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Climate Change and Global Food Security: Prof David Battisti
2016-09-02 03:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
YouTube: Understanding Climate Change
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