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UK govt says committed to fighting climate change despite Brexit
2016-06-29 05:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's government remains committed to fighting climate change despite last week's vote to leave the European Union, the country's energy and climate minister said on Wednesday. "While I think the UK's role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday, our commitment to dealing with it has not gone away," Amber Rudd told a Business and Climate Summit in London. "Climate change has not been downgraded as a threat. It remains one of the most serious...
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Committed to fighting climate change in face of Brexit - Amber Rudd
2016-06-29 04:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's government remains committed to fighting climate change despite last week's vote to leave the European Union, the country's energy and climate minister said on Wednesday. "We made a clear commitment to climate change in our manifesto and that will continue," Amber Rudd said, speaking at the Business and Climate Summit in London. "Climate change has not been downgraded as a threat. It remains one of the most serious long term risks to our economic and national security," she said....
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Brexit could halt climate change deal
2016-06-29 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Independent: IN BREXIT fallout news, EU governments might not see the publication of the Commission's climate change proposals by July 20, as expected. The Commission intends to table proposals as a follow-up to the international climate agreement in Paris in January, which requires a 30pc reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in sectors not covered by the emissions trading scheme such as agriculture, as part of an overall aim to reduce total emissions by 40pc by 2030. Climate chief Miguel Arias...
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2 ways to limit the number of heat-related deaths from climate change
2016-06-28 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: By the 2080s, as many as 3,331 people could die every year from exposure to heat during the summer months in New York City. The high estimate by Columbia University scientists is based on a new model--the first to account for variability in future population size, greenhouse gas trajectories, and the extent to which residents adapt to heat through interventions like air conditioning and public cooling centers. Results appear online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Researchers...
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31 scientific bodies tell US Congress: Climate change is real
2016-06-28 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The idea that climate change is a vast global conspiracy -- involving everyone from Nasa and the British Met Office to Chinese government scientists and has persisted in the United States to an alarming degree. So much so that more than 180 members of Congress are believed to be climate deniers, including Senator Jim Inhofe, who once tossed a snowball to the presiding officer in February, saying: You know what this is? Its a snowball, from outside here. So its very, very cold out. Very unseasonable....
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