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Has climate change really improved U.S. weather?
2016-04-22 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: According to a new report published in Nature on April 20, 2016 by Patrick Egan and Megan Mullin, weather conditions have improved for the vast majority of Americans over the past 40 years. This, they argue, explains why there has been little public demand so far for a policy response to climate change. Egan and Mullin do note that this trend is projected to reverse over the course of the coming century, and that Americans will become more concerned about climate change as they perceive more...
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US Presidential Candidates' Positions on Climate Change
2016-04-22 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: The White House says the United States is leading global efforts in addressing climate change. But with President Obama's last term coming to an end, where do the presidential hopefuls stand on climate change? NBC News reported that Republican candidates Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz have said they do not believe in climate change. While Ohio Governor John Kasich said humans contribute to it. Meanwhile on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders both agree that climate...
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UN record 175 countries sign climate deal, but hard graft remains
2016-04-22 21:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: China cranks up pressure on G20, calling on all major economies to ratify agreement ahead of September`s meeting The Secretary-General addresses the Opening Ceremony of the High-Level Event for the Signature of the Paris Agreement (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas) China challenged fellow G20 members to formally approve the Paris Agreement on climate change by September, as 175 countries signed the UN pact in New York on Friday. The strong show of support for a deal to end the era of fossil fuels...
Record number of countries sign historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change on Earth Day
2016-04-22 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AccuWeather: A historic meeting took place on April 22, 2016, as more than 155 countries have committed to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York. The agreement was approved by the 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention of the Climate Change (UNFCCC) in COP21 in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015. In the agreement, all countries pledged to work to limit the temperature rise overall below 2 degrees Celsius, but are aiming to achieve a temperature...
'Once-a-century' climate hazards will hit Europe yearly: study
2016-04-22 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: By mid-century, pockets of southern Europe will face at least one severe climate hazard every year of the scale now occurring only once a century, according to a new study. And by 2100, Europe's entire Mediterranean seaboard will be confronted annually with extreme droughts, coastal floods or heatwaves, said the study, published this week in the journal Climatic Changes. Some hotspots will be hit every year by two or more such formerly one-in-hundred-year hazards, which also include wildfires,...
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