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Canada to set climate change tests pipeline reviews: Trudeau
2016-01-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Tuesday to require that environmental reviews of oil pipelines and LNG export projects consider greenhouse gas effects, and said it was not his role to be a cheerleader for such projects. The Liberal government said the new rules would be rolled out within days, and that they would take into account not just the greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed pipeline or liquefied natural gas terminal but also its "upstream" effects, meaning the impact...
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Ottawa to seek climate change study of energy projects
2016-01-27 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: The Trudeau government will insist on environmental assessments for two major West Coast natural resource projects to take into account their greenhouse gas emissions, a senior source said Tuesday. But the proposal -- Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has only said to expect an announcement within days -- will not delay either project, the source said. We are keenly aware that significant commercial actors have spent a lot of good money in good faith on a process that they were assured by...
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Denmark preps for climate change by building parks transform into ponds
2016-01-27 02:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Danes may be among the happiest people in the world, but its going to take more than a good attitude to prepare for Denmarks coming deluge. Climate change has big plans for the country, including loads and loads of heavy downpours. In just the past five years, Denmark`s capital, Copenhagen, has been hit by two alleged "100-year floods" -- in other words, floods so disastrous, theyre only supposed to occur once a century. So what`s the best way to paddle a waterlogged city to safety? Here`s...
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The prospect of climate change and solutions post-Paris
2016-01-27 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: LAST month, the citizens of France -- and the world -- confronted two great crises of our time: international terrorism and climate change. They overcame fear, demonstrated great hope for the future and, most important, took action to overcome both. We know -- we were there. As delegates to the United Nations Conference of the Parties on climate change, we witnessed Parisians take action to strengthen public safety and security. We also saw the world take a historic and united step forward in...
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Doomsday Clock stuck near midnight due to climate change and nuclear war
2016-01-26 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Doomsday Clock, the symbolic countdown to humanitys end, remained stuck on the brink of the apocalypse for a second year on Tuesday, because of the continued existential threats posed by nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group which created the clock in 1947, said it was keeping the clock hands set at three minutes to midnight the closest the clock has come to destruction since the throes of the cold war in 1984. The clock ticks now at just three...
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