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New research confirms sowing doubt about climate change is devastatingly effective
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For some time, social science researchers have been studying an oddity about the U.S. -- compared with many other nations, were a hotbed of global warming doubt and denial. Accordingly, and to counteract this, a variety of messages or ways of re-framing the issue have been proposed, often with the goal of appealing to the ideology of political conservatives, which is where most of the doubt lies. Some of the most popular framing ideas include talking about climate change in the context of economic...
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Sea grass a potential solution in climate fight
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the global average surface temperature in 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record and to reach the symbolic and significant milestone of 1°C above the pre-industrial era. That's the problem Carlos Duarte has been been trying to solve since at least 2009, when he and fellow marine researchers came up with the term "blue carbon" to describe the surprisingly large role the world's sea grasses, mangroves and salt bushes might play in tackling...
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'Loss and damage' creeps in from the cold at UN climate talks
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Hurricane Katrina brought storm surges crashing into New Orleans in August 2005, Beverly Wright lost all her family photographs, going back to her great grandparents, in the flood. "You cannot replace all of the memorabilia, or pictures you cherish and pass on from person to person," said the executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice. "There are things that cannot be replaced monetarily." She gave this as an example of "loss and damage" from climate change,...
House assault climate rules elicits shrugs abroad
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius today dismissed a U.S. House vote to gut the cornerstone of President Obama's international climate change promises, saying opposition in Congress won't derail talks here toward a new agreement. "My sense was that wasn't a great surprise, what happened. We know the position that the Congress has, at least the position of many Republicans in Congress," Fabius said. "In fact, we discussed this the other day with President Obama when we were having dinner....
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Paris climate summit: hackers leak login details of more than 1,000 officials
2015-12-03 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anonymous claimed the attack was an act of protest against the arrest of protesters on a climate march in Paris on Sunday. Climate activists organising a peaceful protest say that the demonstration was hijacked by a small group of anarchists who clashed with police. All public protests have been banned in the city since a state of emergency was declared after the terror attacks nearly three weeks ago. Officials whose data has been leaked are from a range of countries including the United Kingdom,...
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