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'Life on planet at stake' France warns as climate ministers meet
2015-11-08 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: France`s top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a global pact to rein in global warming, warned Sunday of a looming planetary "catastrophe". With the key UN conference just three weeks away, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also announced that Russia`s President Vladimir Putin would attend the November 30 opening. Russia, a major oil producer, is seen as a deal-maker or breaker in the years-long attempt to negotiate the world`s first truly universal pact...
Human-caused climate change increased severity of many extreme events in 2014
2015-11-08 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released today. The report, "Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective" published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, addresses the natural and...
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Vladimir Putin to attend Paris climate summit: France
2015-11-08 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the November 30 opening of a UN summit in Paris tasked with producing a climate rescue pact, France's top diplomat said Sunday. More than 100 heads of state and government have confirmed they will attend, including "the president of the United States, the premier of China, the president of Russia...," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists. Russia, a major oil producer, is seen as a deal-maker or breaker in the years-long attempt to negotiate...
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Human-caused climate change made extreme weather worse in 2014
2015-11-08 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forex Report: Data in all three countries suggests that Catholics are backing Pope Francis`s Encyclical released in June, titled Laudato Si, which argues that "climate change is a global problem with grave implications". "Greenland Is Melting Away": a video and essay of scientists` studying the Greenland ice sheet, from the New York Times this week. Lee also identified the "power of the purse" as another constitutional power Congress should use to make sure President Obama does not commit the United States...
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United Kingdom: The Observer view on Tories' shameful record on climate change
2015-11-08 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: President Obama reputedly remarked of the forthcoming UN climate change summit: Im dragging the rest of the world behind me to Paris. Later this month, 149 nations will congregate to agree national targets for reducing carbon emissions. But Britain, once regarded as a global leader, has relegated itself to the ranks of those reluctantly being pulled along in Obamas wake. Since the election, the government has performed a series of dizzying U-turns on its green policies. It has announced cuts...
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