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Regulatory Climate Needed to Support Competitive Agriculture
2016-07-20 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The General Manager of Manitoba Pork suggests government can best assist farmers by creating a regulatory climate that allows agriculture to access the resources needed to remain competitive in a global market, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Vienna climate meeting aims for progress on deal to cut HFC use
2016-07-20 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Diplomats meeting in Vienna this week hope to take a major step toward a deal under the Montreal Protocol to decrease the use of a potent greenhouse gas, in what could be the most significant measure to combat global warming since last year's Paris climate agreement. Officials from nearly 200 countries are trying to hammer out details of an agreement to cut the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in heating and air conditioning by amending the ozone-protection treaty that went into force in 1989....
2016 Is Breaking All Kinds of Climate Records, and Its Only Half Over
2016-07-19 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: 2016 is only half over, and already two big indicators of climate change (global surface temperatures, and the diminishing extent of Arctic sea ice) are smashing record after record, NASA scientists said on Tuesday in a press conference. Its a troubling trend thats hitting home in many parts of the world, like western Canada, which has seen hot and dry weather contribute to some extraordinarily destructive wildfires this year: In May, wildfire levelled the oiltown of Fort McMurray, Alberta....
2016 climate trends continue to break records
2016-07-19 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January...
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As Republicans Deny Climate Change, the U.N. Says it Could Cost the World $2 Trillion
2016-07-19 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mic: Assuming all goes as planned, the GOP -- during the ongoing 2016 Republican Convention -- will formally select presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a man who has described climate change as a concept "created by and for the Chinese" and "bullshit." Meanwhile, the United Nations released research Tuesday which indicates said "bullshit" could interfere with productivity, costing the world $2 trillion over the next 14 years. As the world gets hotter, it will necessitate that...
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