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How Major Investors Are Anticipating Risks of Climate Change
2016-01-26 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The highest town in Europe has welcomed the annual smattering of the world's political and business elite to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) yearly conference. Set to build on the Paris climate agreement finalised in December, the participants convening in Davos aim to explore how businesses and governments can work together to reach the below 2°C limit of global warming. The topic of climate change plays a prevalent role during the talks, not least thanks to the latest Global Risks report by...
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2015 was warmest year on record; El Nio, climate change to blame
2016-01-25 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Republic: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's most recent State of the Climate report confirmed what many climatologists have been predicting for most of the past year. The year 2015 was the warmest since records on that statistic have been kept starting in 1880. The average temperature last year was 1.62 degreesFahrenheit above the 20th-century average of 57 degrees. That temperature topped the record set in 2014 by 0.29 degrees. Last year not only was the warmest calendar year, it also...
The surprising way that climate change could worsen East Coast blizzards
2016-01-25 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As the East Coast digs out from the enormous snowfalls of Winter Storm Jonas, a prominent climate scientist has drawn a provocative connection between the storm, warm ocean temperatures off the U.S. and a slowdown of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic that may also be behind a much discussed cold blob to the southeast of Greenland. People have thought, you get this cold blob, and its going to maybe affect Britain, says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,...
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Is Climate Change Causing The Recent Streak Of Record-Setting Warm Years?
2016-01-25 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Popular Science: Last year was the warmest on record. Red and orange show areas that were above the average temperature last year. Blue areas show places where temperatures were cooler than average. We're on a roll. 2015 was the hottest year on record, just like 2014 was the hottest year on record, and before that, 2012 was the hottest year on record... In fact, 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have happened in the last 15 years. What are the odds? In a paper released in Scientific Reports today, researchers...
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Maldives is trashing climate legacy, says ousted president Nasheed
2016-01-25 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News: Days after being freed early from a 13-year prison sentence, Mohamed Nasheed said the country was regarded an ecological villain, pursuing dirtier energy policies since his ousting in 2012. In response to a question by Climate Home, he said Male should no longer lead the Alliance of Small Island States, which negotiates at UN talks. Its very sad again that Maldives has lot the moral high ground, and with that small islands are losing the moral high ground, the country`s first democratically...
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