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EU finance ministers set for vague climate promises
2015-11-05 16:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European finance ministers are likely to agree on Tuesday to provide more cash to help the world adapt to global warming, which campaigners say will be too weak for a successful outcome to the Paris talks on a new climate deal. Poor nations have said climate finance will be the biggest issue for the Paris negotiations that begin on Nov. 30. A draft document prepared for next Tuesday's meeting of EU finance ministers says the European Union's climate finance contribution for 2014 was 14.5 billion...
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ExxonMobil hit with climate change investigation
2015-11-05 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: ExxonMobil is under investigation by the New York Attorney General for withholding information from both its shareholders and the public about the risks of climate change. In a statement on Thursday, ExxonMobil confirmed that it has received a subpoena requesting documents and information pertaining to climate change. ExxonMobil said it "unequivocally" rejected any accusations that it had hidden climate change research. "ExxonMobil has included information about the business risk of climate change...
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Why the Paris climate summit will be a peace conference
2015-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tom Dispatch: At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever held. Officially known as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the 1992 treaty that designated that phenomenon a threat to planetary health and human survival), the Paris summit will be focused on the adoption of measures that would limit global warming to less than catastrophic levels....
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Climate change is moving mountains, research says
2015-11-05 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] For millions of years global climate change has altered the structure and internal movement of mountain ranges, but the resulting glacial development and erosion can in turn change a mountain's local climate. The degree of this cause-and-effect relationship has never been clearly observed, until now. Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range - located along the Pacific coastal region of North America - the way…
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Human-caused climate change increased severity of many extreme events in 2014
2015-11-05 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blog: 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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