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8 climate change takeaways from Davos
2016-01-22 16:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: It is the first major meeting of politicians and business leaders since 195 nations struck a landmark deal to limit carbon emissions in Paris in December. Thousands of luminaries have come to a Swiss ski resort to unpack the opportunities and challenges of the future. 'Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution` is the theme meant to guide high-powered panel sessions. Among talk of robotics, 3D printing and nanotechnology, the Paris agreement should merit mention. It aims to radically shrink...
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Climate denier David H. Koch leaves American Museum of Natural Historys board
2016-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Mag: After 23 years, David H. Koch has decided to quit the board of the American Museum of Natural History. Although groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club have called for Koch's dismissal for months "There's no place for the agenda of people like David Koch and others trying to undermine science for their own financial gain in our country's top museums," Greenpeace declared back in March the decision is more likely his than the museum's. His spokesperson told the Times that Koch simply "does...
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Climate change raises a troubling question: Who gets to eat?
2016-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Policymakers on Capitol Hill got a dire warning that climate change threatens food production, safety and affordability. That stark message came in a briefing by the American Meteorological Society to congressional staff members, climate scientists and federal regulators that linked climate change to a host of troubling scenarios involving worldwide food availability. Wednesday's briefing drew on a peer-reviewed study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture released during the Paris Climate Conference...
Judge in climate suit tells feds to re-examine coal mine
2016-01-22 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Federal officials must re-examine a 117 million-ton expansion of an eastern Montana coal mine after a judge sided with environmentalists who sued over the project's potential to make climate change worse and cause other environmental damage. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters gave the Interior Department nine months to look again at the proposal for the Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek mine near Decker, Montana, along the Wyoming border. In its prior review, the agency "failed to take a hard look"...
Climate change grinding down coffee: Illy CEO
2016-01-22 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Despite El Nino, climate change and other factors impacting coffee prices, Illy's chairman & CEO, Andrea Illy, remains confident that coffee demand is on the rise. Climate change is a threat to coffee production in the medium and long term, Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of Italian coffee company Illy, told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. "Coffee is one of the crops which is severely affected by climate change, which is a threat both in terms of too high temperature in some...
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