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Science won't win over the climate change sceptics - we need stories
2014-12-02 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week marks the five year anniversary of climategate, a rather grandiose title given to the theft and online publication of controversial email correspondence between climate scientists in November 2009. Since this date, no fewer than six separate inquiries have rejected claims by climate sceptics that the emails contained evidence of scientists manipulating data. But if youre scratching your head trying to remember exactly where you were when this momentous event took place, you are in...
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Oopsie! $1 Billion UN Funds to Fight Climate Change Built Coal Power Plants
2014-12-02 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: About $1 billion in United Nations funding meant to help developing countries take action against climate change went, unnoticed, towards Japanese companies for the construction of three coal-fired power plants, the Associated Press reported Monday. Coal-burning power plants are the worlds biggest source of atmospheric CO2, a key driver of global warming. U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres was apparently unaware of where those funds wound up until it was brought to her attention by the...
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Hotter and more unpredictable: Climate change already affecting Earth
2014-12-02 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder. U.S. and China reach historic climate change agreement Obama urges world to follow U.S. lead on climate change The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Population: up...
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98 percent Costa Ricans believe in climate change, says UN survey
2014-12-02 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Nearly every single Costa Rican surveyed by the United Nations Development Program said they agreed the climate is changing, and more than 90 percent said that humans are at least partially responsible. The survey results released Monday also showed that Costa Ricans would be willing to pay more to reduce their impact on the planet. (See a PDF of the survey in Spanish here) Costa Ricas reputation as a green country is well established. The country made a name for itself in the eco-tourism field...
US sees voluntary emissions cuts key climate change accord
2014-12-02 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The United States is championing a new international approach to cutting greenhouse gases that offers the best chance of prompting countries to take action to avert the worst effects of global warming, the nation's chief climate negotiator said Monday. The comments by the State Department's Todd Stern came as United Nations negotiations began in Peru to develop the framework for an international accord to curtail heat-trapping emissions and adapt to changes already occurring on the planet. The...
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