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Trees: Helping Cities Solve Climate Change
2016-01-12 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Quick, name a climate solution for cities which helps lower carbon emissions, protects vulnerable people who live there, and even helps students get better grades. Give up? The answer is urban forests and you're not alone if you didn't come up with the answer. After all, most of us see the trees woven into our city streets and parks as just a pretty, cinematic backdrop for urban life. Nice to look at, certainly, but not profoundly important when compared to better mass transit and other steps cities...
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Mountains west of Boulder continue to lose ice as climate warms
2016-01-12 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates an ongoing loss of ice on Niwot Ridge and the adjacent Green Lakes Valley in the high mountains west of Boulder is likely to progress as the climate continues to warm. The study area encompasses the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, thousands of acres of alpine tundra, subalpine forest, talus slopes, glacial lakes and wetlands stretching to the top of the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The Niwot Ridge...
Peter Singer on the COP21 Agreement & Ethics of Climate Change
2016-01-12 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Good Magazine: Peter Singer is arguably one of the worlds best-known modern philosophers. Singer has been based out of Princeton University since 1999 and has a host of awards and honors to his name. Hes perhaps best known for his seminal 1975 tome Animal Liberation, which all but coined that term (hed used it earlier in 1973) and helped to launch the movement around it. Arguing that there was no real value or significance in the distinction between species and rejecting the need for reciprocal social contracts...
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United Kingdom: PM challenged over climate policies
2016-01-12 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The PM has been accused of double standards over climate change, ahead of a Commons committee appearance. Select committee chairmen Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) and Angus MacNeil (SNP) said he has scrapped UK schemes aimed at cutting emissions, despite pledging internationally to protect the climate. They singled out the decision to axe a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project promised in the Tory manifesto. The government said the CCS scheme had always been "subject to affordability"....
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Time to turn climate pledges into concrete action: France
2016-01-12 01:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The 195 governments that clinched the Paris climate deal must now turn their pledges into concrete action, France's ecology minister Segolene Royal said Monday. Fresh from meetings with US businesses in California, Royal held talks with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York to discuss how to move quickly to implement the deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. "Every country will now have to turn their national commitments into concrete action," Royal said. A formal signing ceremony will...
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