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Expert urges voluntary family planning mitigate climate change
2016-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: With climate change already close to an irreversible tipping point, urgent action is needed to reduce not only our mean (carbon) footprints but also the "number of feet" -- that is, the growing population either already creating large footprints or aspiring to do so, argues a leading physician and environmentalist in The BMJ. Yet John Guillebaud, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University College London, says most climate change discussions focus only on technology...
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Activist Naomi Klein links Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change at University of Calgary speech
2016-05-30 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Sun: Activist Naomi Klein ruffled some feathers in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Sunday, linking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels. Speaking at Congress 2016, which is being held at the University of Calgary, Klein said last year's Paris climate change agreement didn't go far enough. "It is a breakthrough and, if it's all we do, it will be an ecological disaster,' she told the crowd of almost 500 people. "If we are serious about...
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Easter Island statues could fall into sea due to climate change, U.N. says
2016-05-29 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Higher waves caused by a warming planet are chipping away at platforms that have supported some of the famous statues on Easter Island for more than 500 years, according to a United Nations report on cultural heritage sites and climate change. "Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion," said Adam Markham, deputy director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of the report, which examined the potential...
How fracking can contribute to climate change
2016-05-29 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One of the justifications for fracking is the use of natural gas as a bridging fuel between coal and a low-carbon future. However natural gas is mostly methane, which has strong global warming impacts in its own right. Natural gas therefore only provides climate benefits over coal if the leakage is no more than 2-3%. We cannot measure leaks from every pipe joint. One alternative is to measure the sum of lots of leaks from a distance. Flights over US shale gas fields reveal large methane sources,...
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Homeowners kept in dark about climate change risk to houses, says report
2016-05-29 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The risk that houses in some areas of Australia are likely to become uninsurable, dilapidated and uninhabitable due to climate change is kept hidden from those building and buying property along Australias coasts and in bushfire zones, a Climate Institute report says. The report says there is untapped and unshared data held by regulators, state and local governments, insurers and banks on the level of risk, but that most homebuyers and developers are not told about the data and do not have access...
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