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UN climate panel to explore 1.5-degree warming goal
2016-04-14 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The U.N.'s scientific panel on climate change will write a special report on how to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed Thursday to explore the issue after a request by world governments in Paris last December. Many scientists say it will be virtually impossible to keep warming below that level without removing vast quantities of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from the atmosphere....
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UN climate science body green-lights 1.5C report
2016-04-14 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The UN`s climate science body will produce a special report by 2018 on the impacts of 1.5C global warming and emissions cuts needed to stay within that threshold. That was agreed by government representatives at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi this week. They were responding to a call in the Paris Agreement for a review of evidence around the tough aspirational limit on temperature rise. "1.5 to stay alive" was a rallying cry for campaigners,...
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Impact of climate change on Indigenous communities
2016-04-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: When singer, songwriter, storyteller and music therapist Getano Bann talks about climate change he talks about connection to country. Mr Bann draws on a tradition of telling "life stories" to build empathy, asking people to imagine themselves as an ancestor on an island in the Torres Strait, at the beginning of time. "This is your island and you grow old and you have children," he said. "Then for thousands and thousands of years your children have told the story of you: our ancestor who's...
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A climate hawks guide to New York Democratic debate
2016-04-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Less than a week to go before the New York primary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will hold their ninth debate on Thursday on both their home turfs - Brooklyn. Though the environment hasn`t cropped up in many of the previous debates, it`s looking as though it will be on the table during this one with CNN and NY1. Last weekend, Sanders held climate rally for activists in upstate New York and he`s taken plenty of opportunities to go after his opponent on hydraulic fracturing. And on Wednesday,...
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Why even climate science denialist Marc Morano knows not to bet against global warming data
2016-04-14 07:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If betting really is a mugs game, then betting against global warming is starting to look like an activity for the grandest of mugs. A game for the sort of mug who could, right now, be looking forward to receipt of a squidrillion dollars in return for handing over their bank details to someone they just met over email. Earlier this week, it turned out one of Americas most prominent and active deniers of the dangers of climate change was no mug when it came to putting some money on the table....
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