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Australia starves green fund, denting climate credibility
2016-02-01 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Australia is choking off support for its main climate policy, casting doubt on Canberra`s green commitment. There are no plans to extend the A$2.55 billion (US$1.8bn) Emissions Reduction Fund after it runs out, expected to happen later this year. Finance minister Mathias Cormann told the Australian newspaper future budgets could support the scheme -- which offers incentives for businesses to invest in energy efficiency. The government will review its green arsenal in 2017, potentially introducing...
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Renewable Energy Best Way To Achieve Climate Targets Under Clean Power Plan Unaddressed Methane Leakage From Natural Gas Sector Could Undercut Emissions Reductions
2016-02-01 04:54:46| pollutiononline Home Page
New analysis from PSE Healthy Energy and University of California at Berkeley finds that increased deployment of renewable energy is the best way to meet or even surpass Clean Power Plan targets, as recent scientific measurements of methane leaks from natural gas systems have found higher rates of leakage than those recorded in official inventories
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With climate, fertilizing oceans could be zero-sum game
2016-02-01 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming--fertilizing the oceans with iron to produce more carbon-eating algae--may not necessarily work as envisioned. Plants need trace amounts of iron to perform photosynthesis, but certain parts of the oceans lack it, and thus algae are scarce. Recent shipboard experiments have shown that when researchers dump iron particles into such areas,...
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New Satellite Collects Sea Level Data to Monitor Climate Change
2016-01-31 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Scientists from the U.S. and Europe have a new eye in the sky monitoring the world's oceans.The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, is the latest satellite to monitor rising sea levels. Scientists say data collected by satellites over the last two decades shows sea levels rising at an accelerating rate, which they say is an indicator of climate change. Josh Willis, Lead Project Scientist for the Jason-3 mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said rising sea levels were one of the factors...
Human impacts on climate caused record warm years
2016-01-31 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Recent record warm years are with extremely high likelihood caused by human-made climate change. Without greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal and oil, the odds are vanishingly small that 13 out of the 15 warmest years ever measured would all have happened in the current, still young century. These odds are between 1 in 5000 and 1 in 170.000, a new study by an international team of scientists now shows. Including the data for 2015, which came in after the study was completed, makes the odds...
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