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Study: Climate change adding billions to US hurricane costs
2015-10-19 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The economic cost of U.S. hurricane strikes has increased dramatically due to man-made climate change, says a study out Monday. "The rise in losses is consistent with an influence of global warming on the number and intensity of hurricanes, an influence which may have accounted for 2% to 12% of the U.S. hurricane losses in 2005," according to the study. In 2005 alone, climate change was likely responsible for close to $14 billion of additional damage, including the part of the devastation from...
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UN climate text swells as G77 flexes muscles in Bonn
2015-10-19 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Time-pressed talks on a global climate deal faced delays on Monday after the co-chairs guiding the process accepted their proposed draft agreement lacked support from most countries. UN officials had presented a radically cut 20-page set of proposals earlier this month, but their work was shredded in an intense and angry morning session in Bonn. Instead of planned negotiations, the text swelled rapidly on a binge of over 50 so-called surgical insertions from countries, most ranging between...
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UNs chief environment scientist: UK appears abandoned its leadership on climate change
2015-10-19 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN`s chief environment scientist Prof Jacquie McGlade, has criticised UK cuts in subsidies for renewable energy. This follows the government`s decision after election to cut support for renewables and give tax breaks to oil and gas companies. She told BBC News: "What I`m seeing worldwide is a move very much towards investment in renewable energy. To counterbalance that you see the withdrawal of subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels. "What`s disappointing is when we see countries such...
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3 Reasons Why Republicans Wont Undermine Paris Climate Talks
2015-10-19 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Leaders from around the world are preparing for international climate talks in Paris this December. The U.S., China, India and other nations have announced concrete plans for reducing their carbon pollution and many cities and corporations have done the same. Observers expect the talks to produce major advances in the fight against climate change. Here at home, however, the GOP is trying to block progress at every turn. Republican lawmakers have been saying for years America shouldnt tackle...
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South Africa likens draft climate deal to apartheid
2015-10-19 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Africa on Monday criticized a draft United Nations accord on fighting climate change as a form of "apartheid" against developing nations. A summit in Paris is supposed to agree a global accord for tackling climate change in December, but a last week of negotiations on the draft text, which began in Germany on Monday, got off to a stormy start with developing nations saying their demands had been omitted from the pared down 20-page draft. "It is just like apartheid," Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko,...
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