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Climate change may halve giant panda's habitat by 2070
2015-01-09 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: GIANT pandas, prepare to move out. Shifting these creatures to distant reserves may be essential if they are to survive the likely impacts of climate change. Pandas are well known for their pernickety bamboo diet and lacklustre sex lives. Wild populations have been reduced to a tiny gene pool and are under new pressure from the explosive growth in road-building in China. Taking these factors into account, Ming Xu of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and colleagues have modelled...
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Leave Fossil Fuels Untapped to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, Study Urges
2015-01-08 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Change Network: The sheer scale of the fossil fuel reserves that will need to be left unexploited for decades if world leaders sign up to a radical climate agreement is revealed in a study by a team of British scientists. It shows that almost all the huge coal reserves in China, Russia and the U.S. should remain unused, along with more than 260 billion barrels of oil reserves in the Middle Eastthe equivalent of Saudi Arabias total oil reserves. The Middle East would also need to leave more than 60 percent of...
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Australia: Climate change isn't just a Leftist cause
2015-01-06 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The climate debate has descended into an ideological battle of Left versus Right, with parties of the Left taking ownership of the moral necessity for climate action. It need not be so, writes Dale Hughes. I'm a Liberal voter and I'm passionate about action on climate change. Did that sentence seem strange? Under Tony Abbott's stewardship of the federal Liberal Party, the term "Liberal" has almost become synonymous with climate change denial. It need not be so. The climate debate has unfortunately...
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Keystone, climate change and the US economy: truth behind the myths
2015-01-06 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America has 2.5m miles of oil and gas pipelines. But none of those pipelines are anywhere near as contentious as the Keystone XL, which would transport tar sands crude oil from Canada to refineries on the US gulf coast. Over the past six-plus years, Keystone has become a stand-in for a broader debate about climate change. Its also the subject of much myth-making about climate change and the economy. Below, a look at some of the most prominent of those myths, and the truth behind them. Myth #1:...
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Climate change groups split on fossil fuel divestment
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ca02a4c-8792-11e4-bc7c-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3NxgXUUzX A rift is emerging among investors in some of the worlds biggest energy companies over a global campaign that aims to combat climate change by making fossil fuels as...
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