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India's climate change commitment rest on principles of Gandhi
2015-10-03 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran: As millions across the world paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary, India's top diplomat in the US said that the country's commitment on climate change is based on the Mahatma's three guiding principles of 'ahimsa, satyagraha and sarvodaya'. "Today India declared its INDCs, the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. This day was deliberately and specifically chosen to indicate that India would take, because Gandhiji had described that we should act as 'trustees' and...
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Republican Candidates' Climate Change Denial No Longer Reflects The Conservative Base
2015-10-02 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A recent study by Sondre Btstrand shows what an extreme outlier the modern Republican party is when compared with the conservative parties in nine other democracies with respect to their attitudes about climate change. Interestingly, a survey by Republican pollsters indicates the party's presidential candidates denial of climate change science no longer reflects the views of the party's base either. According to Jonathan Chait writing about the study in the New York Times: "Of all the major...
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Brown Carbon Plays Larger Role in Climate Than Assumed, Study Says
2015-10-02 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Climate models are underestimating the effects of so-called brown carbon from sources such as forest fires because the models do not account for regional factors such as areas where wood-burning stoves are common when estimating brown carbon's climate-warming impacts. Black carbon, primarily from urban combustion sources like vehicles and factories, absorbs the most sunlight, the researchers explain, and it's well-accounted for in climate models. However, most models don't properly account for...
Hall of shame: Who hasnt pledged yet to UN climate pact?
2015-10-02 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: In the world of climate diplomacy there are no penalties, just reproachful gazes. As it stands, 49 countries covering about 10% of global greenhouse gases according to EU 2012 data, might get the silent treatment at a Paris summit in December. At the close of UN talks in Poland in 2013, countries who were "ready to do so" were invited to produce an "intended nationally determined contribution" (INDC) by the first quarter of 2015. Analysis: 9 things we learned from national climate pledges...
Why You Should Care About Climate Change: Part 1
2015-10-02 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Climate change is becoming an issue of rising importance to Americans. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 46 percent of Americans view climate change as a serious issue, up from 33 percent in 2013. Over the past few years President Obama has dedicated much of his time to addressing climate change, calling it a threat to national and global security, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called it one of the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. However, it still seems that...
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