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At Paris climate talks, experts cite looming risk from industrial coolants, methane
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As world leaders grapple with how to cut global emissions of carbon dioxide, diplomats in Paris are recording progress in combating other pollutants that scientists believe are contributing powerfully to rising temperatures. A coalition of governments and private businesses has agreed to take up a series of initiatives to limit so-called short-lived climate pollutants, ranging from industrial chemicals used in refrigerators to soot particles given off by diesel engines. While emissions of these...
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Climate draft adopted, but political issues up in air
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democrat-Gazette: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries adopted a draft text Saturday that left many issues unresolved before talks this week aimed at reaching a global agreement to fight climate change. As the U.N. talks outside Paris reached their midway point, the 48-page draft agreement was sent along to environment and foreign ministers who will work on it this week. "Major political issues must still be resolved," French envoy Laurence Tubiana said at Saturday's meeting. "It will take all our energy, intelligence,...
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Science to the rescue on climate change
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wisconsin State Journal: In the hit movie The Martian, an astronaut played by Matt Damon is left for dead on the Red Planet. So in the face of overwhelming odds, Damons character says, Im left with only one option: Im going to have to science the sh-- out of this. And he does, growing potatoes using Martian soil to stay alive and recycling a space probe to communicate with NASA, among other feats of knowledge. Its Hollywood fantasy. Yet a similar can-do attitude (minus the naughty words) has pervaded Paris...
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Climate change messages come in all forms in Paris
2015-12-06 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indigenous people take to the water in Paris to call for climate change, while hundreds form the shape of Eiffel Tower to promote renewable energy. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Bloomberg says investors pricing in climate risk
2015-12-06 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global investors are increasingly pricing in the risk of climate change, US billionaire Michael Bloomberg told AFP on Saturday after taking charge of a task force to bring greater clarity to the financial implications of a warming world. Climate experts warn of huge consequences for the world's economy if humanity fails to curb emissions of climate-altering carbon gases, tipping Earth towards a future of rising seas, floods, storms and droughts. Speaking on the sidelines of UN climate-saving...
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