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New draft text of Paris climate change deal cuts through many sticking points
2015-12-11 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Negotiators in Paris are within reach of a new global agreement to curb greenhouse emissions to 2030 and beyond, with the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, saying the meeting was extremely close to the finishing line as he presented a draft text that cut through many sticking points. After reading the new draft and chairing a meeting of the so-called umbrella group of developed nations, Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop said she thought the text was about 80% there. Theres...
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Jerry Brown in Paris: Calif governor goes deep on climate change and other global threats
2015-12-11 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: California Gov. Jerry Brown had a song stuck in his head, and he wanted to hear it. Standing outside a conference center shortly after giving a speech on climate change, he asked for someone to play it on their phone. And when the refrain arrived, he sang along to the Barry McGuire tune from 1965 -- "We`re on the eve of destruction." "We have a theme song!" said Nancy McFadden, the governor`s top aide. It was a fitting anthem for Brown`s trip to the U.N. summit on climate change, a trip...
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Models overestimate rainfall increases due to climate change, experts say
2015-12-10 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Lawrence Livermore researchers and collaborators have found that most climate models overestimate the increase in global precipitation due to climate change. Specifically, the team looked at 25 models and found they underestimate the increase in absorption of sunlight by water vapor as the atmosphere becomes moister, and therefore overestimate increases in global precipitation. The team found global precipitation increase per degree of global warming at the end of the 21st century may be about...
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Paris climate change deal 'meaningless' without plan for deeper emissions cuts
2015-12-10 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Paris climate deal will be "meaningless" and will fail to avert dangerous global warming unless countries agree to pledge deeper emissions cuts every five years, the EU has warned, as talks look set to overrun their Friday deadline. An agreement signed at the UN summit will "never achieve" its aim of preventing extreme climate change unless China and other emerging economies drop their opposition to a five-yearly review process, Miguel Arias Caete, the EUs climate commissioner said. The...
The face of climate change: how Inuit youth lead the fight to save the Arctic
2015-12-10 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Maatalii Okalik is tired of seeing polar bears as the face of climate change. Make it an Inuit face. Were the ones that are really affected by it, she told the Guardian in a phone interview from Paris. At the Paris climate conference, the bear is a trope on banners and posters. Politicians and activists are taking note of the Arctics plight, invoking sprawling vistas and vulnerable wildlife as a cautionary tale. This summer, I saw the effects of climate change first-hand in our northernmost...
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