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Idea of slow climate change in Earth's past misleading
2015-11-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In order to predict how today's ecosystems will react to increasing temperatures over the course of global warming, palaeobiologists study how climate change happened in Earth's history and what the consequences were. In order to compare the events of the past with current changes researchers need data on the scope of the changes. What was the speed with which temperatures increased or decreased? What was the magnitude of the change in temperatures? Until now, the general consensus has been that...
Energy Transition Underway Ahead Paris Climate Talks
2015-11-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As global leaders prepare to gather in Paris for the international climate negotiations next month, there are signs that a major worldwide energy transition from coal and crude oil to renewables and other less-polluting forms of energy is underway, according to an International Energy Agency report. That transition is embodied in more than 150 countries' pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change. Most of those pledges involve using more renewables such as wind and solar...
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Fact check: Republicans crazy debate claims about climate change and energy
2015-11-11 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In the fourth Republican presidential debate, hosted by the Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday night, viewers finally got to hear some discussion of energy policy and the Clean Power Plan, President Obamas major effort to curb carbon emissions. Too bad it was totally misleading. Fox Business host and debate moderator Maria Bartiromo kicked off this aspect of the debate with the following question addressed to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.): Senator Paul, you were one of 15...
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John Kerry Says Paris Climate Deal Will Not Be Legally Binding: Report
2015-11-11 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "It's definitively not going to be a treaty... They're not going to be legally binding reduction targets like Kyoto or something," Kerry said, according to the newspaper, referring to the 1997 Kyoto protocol committing states to limit emissions. The UN Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting of some 100...
India sees clean cooking as climate action that saves lives
2015-11-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours every day. Her eyes water and sting. Her throat feels scratchy and sore. Kamlesh is one of hundreds of millions of Indian housewives who, with the simple act of cooking family meals, fill their homes every day with deadly airborne pollutants. The constant exposure to indoor air pollution kills some 4.3 million people every year across...
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