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Report shows we really can fight climate change without breaking the bank
2016-03-17 18:00:48| Extremetech
2015 may be the year that proved the climate fight was possible -- but can we keep the trends going?
Now it's possible to link a heat wave or drought to climate change, in real time
2016-03-17 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Coexist: Four days and four hours after a powerful storm battered parts of the U.K. last Decemberbreaking national records and leaving 5,000 homes floodedresearchers made a statement: The unusually heavy rain was linked to climate change. Last July, when temperatures topped 104 degrees in several European countries, breaking more records, scientists also quickly analyzed the data as the heat wave happened. They concluded that the extreme temperatures were much more likely now than in the past because of...
So ... was that climate change?
2016-03-17 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Like any good detective, Park Williams asks good questions. As a third-grader, for instance, the now-34-year-old's family took him on a road trip across the Rocky Mountains. He had to know: Why did the trees stop growing at a certain elevation? Why were there plants on one side of a mountain and desert on the other? In fifth grade, he heard a radio broadcast. A weatherman predicted that a drought in Northern California, where he grew up, would last for five more years. How did he know that? What...
IRENA: doubling global share of renewable energy by 2030 could save trillions annually from avoided expenditures on pollution and climate change
2016-03-17 11:56:12| Green Car Congress
Sweet harmony: Why UN climate plans should use the same metrics
2016-03-17 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The Paris climate summit was a diplomatic triumph, one built on nearly 190 national climate action plans delivered to the UN in 2015. Known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) in UN jargon, these documents offered the clearest signal yet the world is on a pathway to a low-carbon future. But with the party over and the champagne bottles sent for recycling, its time to look at these INDCs in a more analytical light. If these INDCs are going to be the foundations to address...
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