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Climate vulnerable nations appeal for harder UN goal
2015-11-12 02:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A coalition of nations most at risk from climate change appealed Wednesday for a crucial UN summit to enshrine a much tougher target on global warming, warning that more than one billion lives were at stake. Members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum also pledged to do more themselves to contain global warming, aiming to inspire and challenge powerful countries ahead of the Paris summit starting in less than three weeks. Following a meeting in the Philippine capital of Manila, the group issued a declaration...
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Marin OKs ambitious climate change goals
2015-11-12 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: Ambitious goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions were approved this week by county officials who pledged to meet aggressive targets outlined in a climate change action plan. The county, updating its climate change program, said that by 2020 it intends to cut community greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent below 1990 levels, and those generated by government activities by 15 percent. Planners, noting that an initial goal in 2006 to cut community emissions by 15 percent by 2020 was met within six...
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Climate change: Tackling the Ostrich Syndrome
2015-11-12 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Idaho Statesman: You frequently hear people say, We need to wake up to climate change. I think most of us have awakened but have opted to remain in bed rather than take on the most daunting challenge civilization has ever faced. Using another metaphor were we ostriches, we have chosen to keep our heads in the sand. If you went to the Flicks on a Tuesday night a few weeks ago to see Naomi Kleins book- inspired documentary, This Changes Everything you had to have been moved by the message, which was, for me,...
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Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers
2015-11-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: You wouldn`t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth`s climate is changing -- and this is affecting one of the world`s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya. For Joseph Mwangi and his wife, picking tea early in the morning has become more difficult lately. "We have been experiencing frost on the leaves," Mwangi says. "This makes it hard to work, because the frost stings our hands," he added. Mwangi and his wife Alice Muthoni earn their living as tea-pickers...
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Climate shift ushers in subtropical butterfly
2015-11-11 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Butterflies are full of surprises and this year they have saved their biggest until last: in the midst of an awful November, subtropical butterflies have been spotted on Englands south coast. The remarkable appearance of the long-tailed blue, a butterfly happiest in the heat of Africa or Australia, raises a mystery: will these insects simply die this winter? Until recently, the long-tailed blue, or Lampides boeticus, very occasionally arrived in hot summers: notably in 1945, and 1990 when it...
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