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Climate change could displace half a million people from islands
2015-10-06 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Residents of the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific know they have it bad. Flooding is on the rise and many face the real possibility that their island homes will disappear by the end of the century. Now, a new study projects things could even be worse than previously thought for low-lying island atolls around the world, which are home to half a million people and also host several key U.S. military installations. Studying the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists from the U.S. Geological...
A Top Task for the New Chair of the U.N. Climate Panel a Communication Reboot
2015-10-06 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The new chairman* of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is scheduled to be elected shortly at a large gathering of climate scientists and government representatives in Dubrovnik, Croatia. [Ill update the post after the election and press conference.] Yet, after years of complaints from both inside and out, theres a troubling opacity to the panels operations and theres been no public view of the meeting so far. Via the panels Twitter feed, @IPCC_ch, a spokesperson said this morning...
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Pakistan PM delays climate pledge over provincial rivalries
2015-10-06 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: When the UN deadline passed last week, Pakistan was the fifth biggest emitter not to have submitted a climate pledge. Yet top climate official Arif Ahmed Khan told Aamir Saeed, Islamabad correspondent for Climate Home, his department delivered a draft plan to the prime ministers office four weeks ago. It set out three options for greenhouse gas emissions cuts from business as usual by 2030. The preferred target is 10%, with half conditional on international support. That rises to a maximum...
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What the historic South Carolina floods can - and cant - tell us about climate change
2015-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In 2013, after some controversy, South Carolinas Department of Natural Resources released a report on risks the state could face due to climate change. One of those risks? A predicted result of climate change is the increase in intense storm events causing greater water inputs in shorter periods of time, affecting flood frequency and duration, the report noted. Now, with an unfathomable amount of flooding hitting the state, its easy to wonder if this is precisely the sort of event that South...
Citigroup, citing climate change, will reduce coal financing
2015-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Citigroup Inc., the third-biggest U.S. bank, said it will cut back on financing for coal mining projects, in the latest blow to the industry thats viewed as a key contributor to global warming. Citigroup said its credit exposure to coal mining had declined materially" since 2011 and that the trend would continue into the future. The policy applies to companies that use mountaintop removal methods as well as coal-focused subsidiaries of diversified mining companies, according to the New York-based...
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