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Climate change has dropped off the political radar
2016-02-19 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: After Paris, what now? is a comment increasingly heard in conversations with civil society activists, diplomats and government officials. A senior figure involved at the Paris talks asked me recently if Id heard what plans NGOs had to keep the pressure up on leaders through 2016. Theyd heard little. Neither, I confessed, had I. Its a curious state of affairs given last December nearly 200 countries finally agreed to start walking towards a future without fossil fuels. But there are concerns...
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UN climate change chief steps down after historic Paris deal
2016-02-19 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The UNs climate chief said on Friday she will step down in July, at the end of a six-year term, and praised governments for reaching a 195-nation deal in Paris in December to shift the world economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energies. Christiana Figueres, a 59-year-old Costa Rican, said she would not accept any extension of her term as head of the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat after what she called the historic Paris Agreement. We now move into a phase of urgent implementation,...
Carving up Canada's climate change burden
2016-02-18 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Macleans: The December trip to Paris for the UN climate conference was lots of fun for ministers. It felt great to be among the climate change good guys again. But now its February in Ottawa and reality is sinking in. They made a big promise in Paris and people are wondering how they are going to meet it. Or if, as with so many of our past climate change promises, Canada has neither the intention nor capacity to walk the talk. The challenge facing Ministers is significant. The 2030 target is 524 Mt, a...
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Aussie town battles tumbleweed invasion: A climate change signal?
2016-02-18 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Hairy panic, a perennial weed native to inland Australia, has taken over the rural city of Wangaratta in northern Victoria. Walked out the front door this morning to find a good six-metre [19-foot] spread of tumbleweed across the front of the house again, Wangaratta local Jason Pera tells Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Thursday. It makes it difficult to get the car out in the morning if you can find it. Images and videos of panicum effusum, adequately nicknamed hairy panic,...
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The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early
2016-02-18 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: A recently published study reveals that climate change can cause birds eggs to hatch early. In addition to creating warmer temperatures that trigger early embryonic development in birds, climate change also increases the frequency and duration of heat waves. Thus, warming temperatures are leading to asynchronous hatching of individual eggs within a clutch and increased chick mortality, particularly for birds breeding in the tropics and semi-tropics, and in tropical deserts. Global warming is...
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