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Oil price plunge will be bad news for climate efforts
2016-01-11 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The price of oil has plummeted since June 2014 and last week fell to its lowest level for 11 years. Natural gas prices, which are linked to oil prices, have been falling too. And in many countries, such as the US, the cost of coal has been dropping for a while. Many analysts think prices will remain low for some time, because supplies are plentiful while demand is falling due to China`s economic woes. This prospect has been widely welcomed, because low fuel prices will cut the cost of a big...
Heres what Obama can still do to fight climate change in his final year
2016-01-11 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: heres only one year left until President Obama leaves office, and theres a fair chance he will be replaced by a climate sciencedenying Republican, perhaps one in the form of a comb-over-sporting reality TV star. So time may be running out for the U.S. to take meaningful actions to fight climate change. Obama already has some important climate achievements under his belt most notably, paving the way for the Paris Agreement and cracking down on coal plant emissions through the Clean Power Plan....
NCAR to get new SGI supercomputer to sharpen climate change projections
2016-01-11 15:25:15| Extremetech
The National Center for Atmospheric Research will be working with SGI on a new system to develop more advanced climate and weather models.
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Climate change means more fear, less fun for global middle class: UBS
2016-01-11 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The erosion of wealth among the world's middle class due to climate change is a threat to economic and social stability which could spur its 1 billion members to push for action on global warming, Swiss bank UBS Group AG said. In a study of middle-class consumption in 215 cities around the world, UBS analysts found spending priorities were noticeably different in cities most at risk from climate change such as Los Angeles, Tokyo and Shanghai. In those top-risk cities, the middle class spent...
The Climate Change Book the GOP Needs to Read
2016-01-11 06:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Beast: Back in March, I argued in The Daily Beast that Republican politicians were finally coming around on climate change. Romm believes that that the key figures pushing climate denial will be judged very harshly by history, in the category of Neville Chamberlain or people who were shills for the tobacco industry. At that time, at least some in the GOP had pivoted from a position of outright denial toward one that at least accepted that the world was warming, even if most stopped short of acknowledging...
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