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Can climate change cause wars?
2016-02-17 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: For decades, psychologists have studied the links between temperature and aggression. Whatever the mechanism, it seems to be the case that with spikes in heat come spikes in violence. How can we understand this effect, and what might it mean for the risk of larger scale conflicts like war? Check out the video above. After all, were living in a warming world.
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France's Royal to head U.N. climate talks after Fabius quits
2016-02-17 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said on Wednesday she would take over the presidency of U.N. climate talks, seeking to implement a global deal reached last year to shift away from fossil fuels, after former foreign minister Laurent Fabius quit. Royal said she had accepted a request from French President Francois Hollande to serve out the U.N. presidency, lasting until the next annual meeting of 195 nations on global warming in Marrakech in Morocco, in November. Fabius, who won praise...
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Challenges facing Kiribati indicate what climate change could mean at its worst
2016-02-17 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dominion Post: Floating islands, builtup land, and refuge in Fiji are among the evacuation options Kiribati's government has considered to combat rising seas. Some of Kiribati's islands may disappear under the sea this century, President Anote Tong told New Zealand dignitaries, scientists and island representatives at the first Pacific Climate Change conference in Wellington this week. Some scientists believe Kiribati's chain of 33 atolls and islands, which stand just metres above sea level, could be uninhabitable...
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Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the Northeast
2016-02-17 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Nine climate activists are facing charges in New York state for an act of civil disobedience. One day in November, they blocked the entrance to a parking lot in Montrose, N.Y., where work is being done on a major natural gas pipeline expansion, the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. Now they plan to defend themselves in court on the grounds that their actions were necessary to protect humanity from climate disruption. Consider it a form of self-defense. The Montrose 9, as theyre calling...
Tackling Climate Change Through Profits
2016-02-16 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last month in Davos, the World Economic Forum released the results of a survey of 750 experts on the "most significant long-term risks worldwide." This year the survey was unequivocal: failing to act on climate change is the number one global risk. Coming on the heels of global climate talks in Paris late last year, this warning underscores the importance of the ambitious agreement world leaders achieved at COP21 to keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less. The 2015 Paris Climate Conference...
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