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Obama Builds on His Climate Legacy by Making Historic Change to Coal Leasing Public Lands
2016-01-15 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Today, Sec. of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the Obama administration will be compiling a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on coal leasing on public lands and putting an immediate suspension on all future and modified coal leases. Sec. Jewells announcement today follows President Obamas statement in the State of the Union that he would push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet....
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Climate change, El Nio & Pacific Decadal Oscillation could result to unbearable summer this year
2016-01-15 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The world may have been jolted out of its inertia to get its act together and tackle climate change, but global temperatures are not holding still. So the heavy woollens languishing in the closet may not be the worst thing that can happen. The unbearable summer could get hotter, with little respite. While 2015 has been recorded as the hottest year, meteorologists say 2016 will be warmer. Days after 195 countries at the UNsponsored climate meet in Paris agreed to restrict global temperature rise...
Here's How the Climate Deal Possibly Makes the Clean Air Act Stronger
2016-01-15 15:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A group of leading law professors who work on climate have published a game-changing new legal analysis. It finds that the Paris climate agreement unlocks a previously unused Clean Air Act provision that enables broad authority to use market-based mechanisms to reduce carbon pollution nationwide. Last December in Paris, the U.S. committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2025. That target appears more than achievable given a variety of existing policies,...
There Wasn't A Single Question About Climate Change During The GOP Debate
2016-01-15 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Moderators of Thursday's Republican presidential debate didn't ask candidates a single question on climate change. Nor did the topic come up much at the Republican and Democratic debates last month. President Barack Obama has linked climate change to national security, and a 2014 Pentagon report called it a "threat multiplier." A changing climate can limit the availability of natural resources, increase migratory pressures and lead to instability and conflict. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a...
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Agricultural expansion in Africa could cause climate change: study
2016-01-15 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: A newly released study by a Canadian scholar shows that rainfall and groundwater are crucial for crops in West Africa, yet agriculture may make droughts worse and lead to crop failure. Marc Parlange, a co-author of the study and a hydrology specialist and professor of civil engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, discovered that a Burkina Faso savannah received more rainfall than nearby land cleared for agriculture, posing serious questions about the sustainability...
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