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Americans Sharply Divided On Climate Change, But Most Want U.S. To Lead
2015-12-04 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A LARGE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A PROBLEM - Scott Clement: "A clear but declining majority of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the United States in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with giant partisan disagreement on all aspects of the issue....Sixty-three percent of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the country, slipping from 69 percent in June.[N]early half of Americans, 47 percent, say the federal government should do more...
Why Im optimistic on climate change despite the impossible goals of the Paris talks
2015-12-04 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Only a few days into the UN climate summit, and it is already time to sing the Paris blues. The path to Paris was, unfortunately, paved with pessimism and imperfect accords: Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen. In the meantime, carbon dioxide in the air has increased, raising the worlds average temperature by one degree Celsius relative to pre-industrial times. Looking ahead, the forecast calls for overcast skies. A Paris climate deal is already framed by an impossible goal: a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius,...
Though climate change is a crisis, the population threat is even worse
2015-12-04 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The perennial cry: we need to talk about climate change. And this week, with world leaders in Paris, we have been. But only up to a point. For the likely impact of the rising global population is almost entirely absent, not only from the debate about climate change, but also from that about loss of biological diversity, food and water security, disease, pollution and energy. Lets just remind ourselves of the population statistics of the past half century. In just over half my lifetime, the worlds...
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Climate Change and Equity -- What's Fair?
2015-12-03 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Climate change is such an expansive problem that it is often difficult to know where to begin to address it. It is a technological challenge: How do we develop and exploit the technology of the day to usher in a sustainable future? It is an economic challenge: How do investors remove the inherent risk of climate change from their portfolios and shift the world toward a green economy? It is, of course, a political challenge: How do we find consensus on a way forward for 193 nations at different stages...
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New research confirms sowing doubt about climate change is devastatingly effective
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For some time, social science researchers have been studying an oddity about the U.S. -- compared with many other nations, were a hotbed of global warming doubt and denial. Accordingly, and to counteract this, a variety of messages or ways of re-framing the issue have been proposed, often with the goal of appealing to the ideology of political conservatives, which is where most of the doubt lies. Some of the most popular framing ideas include talking about climate change in the context of economic...
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