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Australia: Climate change: Coalition accused of politicising greenhouse gas target
2015-03-23 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has been accused of politicising the release of official greenhouse gas projections that confirm Australias international climate change pledge for 2020 is becoming easier to reach, but which will also increase pressure for Australia to adopt a more ambitious post-2020 target. The official figures have shown that the total greenhouse gas reduction required to meet Australias bipartisan minimum target of a 5% cut by 2020 is now 236m tonnes, a decrease on previous estimates....
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Florida's State Employees are Preparing for Climate Change, Even as Governor Bans Phrase
2015-03-23 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: From years of reporting on government employees, I know that they're in it for the long haul. Governors and news cycles come and go. The public's attention is beagle-fickle. But there are 25 years to go before pension. So I wasn't expecting any heroes to rock the boat from inside the vast bureaucracy that is Florida's government when I began to investigate the silent treatment given the terms "climate change" and "global warming" within state agencies. After we at the Florida Center for Investigative...
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Climate change could see deadly tropical diseases spread to the UK
2015-03-23 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Malaria, dengue fever and other deadly exotic diseases could become an established part of British life in a matter of decades, public health experts have warned. The emergence of the illnesses is likely to be driven by climate change, which will make it easier for mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects which transmit the diseases to become widespread in the UK. Dengue fever, West Nile virus and chikungunya have already reached parts of Europe and malaria has re-established itself in Greece...
Top Beijing Scientist: China Faces 'Huge Impact' Climate Change
2015-03-22 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: China's top weather scientist has made a rare official acknowledgement: climate change, he says, could have a "huge impact" on the country's crop yields and infrastructure. Zheng Guogang, the head of China's meteorological administration, tells Xinhua news agency that China is already experiencing temperature increases that outpace those in other parts of the world. As a result, China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - faces a possible "ecological degradation," he says. "As...
Jerry Brown: Opposition on climate change borders on immoral
2015-03-22 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown said opposition to steps President Barack Obama is taking on climate change borders on the immoral, as he tore into Republicans in an interview aired Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press. Browns remarks came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., urged states last week to ignore federal directives to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Brown, a longtime champion of environmental causes, said McConnell was representing his coal constituents and putting at...
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