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Climate change play 2071 aims to make data dramatic
2014-11-05 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How do you dramatise climate change? The obvious route, in recent films and novels, has been to imagine a future dystopia of rising sea levels and ravaged landscapes, where wars are fought over scant resources. The danger is that these sci-fi scenarios can seem so outlandish that they have the effect of distancing us from the present reality. Theatre director Katie Mitchell confronted the subject in 2012 when she and the scientist Stephen Emmott explored the issue of overpopulation. We spent...
Australia is 'holding back' global climate change fight
2014-11-04 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia is a drag on international efforts to tackle climate change, says leading economist and former government adviser Professor Ross Garnaut. Prof Garnaut said the country had failed to make its "fair share" of greenhouse gas cuts. Earlier, Prime Minister Tony Abbott reiterated his position that coal was the foundation of global energy needs. Australia has the world's highest carbon emissions per capita and is its second biggest coal exporter. Prof Garnaut, who teaches at the Australian...
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Climate change will 'transform the planet'
2014-11-03 06:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3 News: The United Nations delivered its sharpest warning to date about climate change today. It says we need to stop burning fossil fuels by the end of the century, or face catastrophic consequences. It's being called the most important ever document on climate change and the prognosis for humanity is grim: stop burning fossil fuels by 2100, or risk catastrophic warming that's a global rise in average temperatures of up to 5degC. "If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, we...
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Australia: G20 climate change ad banned by Brisbane airport 'because it was political'
2014-11-03 06:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The board of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), which has two directors with interests in fossil fuel companies, says they had no influence on a decision to reject a billboard calling for action on climate change. The airports decision did not reflect any value judgement about a message aimed at world leaders arriving for the G20 summit this month, a BAC spokeswoman said, but was driven by a policy not to allow billboards with a political intent. She said neither the board nor individual directors...
Climate change will soon be irreversible
2014-11-03 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: The world faces a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible" impacts from climate change without action to cut emissions, a major international report has warned. Experts warned there was little time before the window of opportunity to limit temperature rises to below dangerous levels closed, and that delaying action would greatly increase the costs. The warning came as the United Nations climate body published the final report of its latest assessment on the science of climate...
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