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IPCC reaches finish line releases major climate change synthesis report
2014-11-02 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: Climate change is taking hold and will bring worrying impacts but there is still time to limit the damage. That, in a nutshell, is the message delivered by a new report that synthesizes the findings of three massive studies issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past year. The Synthesis Report, released today at a meeting in Copenhagen, caps work on the fifth assessment of climate science and mitigation that the IPCC has completed since 1990. The report demonstrates...
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Australia: Clive Palmer spectacular end to climate change saga
2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Even by the outsized standards of Clive Palmer, it was a breathtaking display of chutzpah. After endorsing the government's Direct Action climate change policy, which he had previously debunked as a "waste of money" and "token gesture", the mining magnate luxuriated in self-praise. Palmer United Party had achieved great things for the environment, he reasoned. He was, indeed, the saviour of the emissions trading scheme, the economy-wide system of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by putting...
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EPA: Climate change cant be stopped, prepare for wildfires, hurricanes, rising seas
2014-10-31 19:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Environmental Protection Agency released a grim report Friday that said it must start planning for the worst possible effects of climate change, and predicted a future world filled with rising sea levels, raging wildfires and more severe storms. All of these factors will combine to create droughts, expose humans to dangerous chemicals and create other conditions that will put the human race at risk. The EPA says climate change can`t be stopped, and is preparing for the worst. "These...
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UN report: Climate change has permanently ruined farmland the size of France
2014-10-31 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: There may be those who feel the apocalyptic plot of the new Hollywood film Interstellar seems a bit far-fetched, with humans forced to look for an alternative planet because this world can no longer feed them. But it has been given credence by a new United Nations report that has found that the destruction of the environment has left an area of farmland the size of France useless for growing crops. Batman director Christopher Nolans latest film may ultimately prove implausible Matthew McConaughey...
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Feds outline climate change plans
2014-10-31 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Obama administration released thousands of pages on Friday documenting federal agencies vulnerabilities to climate change and what those agencies plan to do about it. In all, 38 agencies released climate change adaptation reports and sustainability plans to address climate threats and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the federal government. The Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Postal Service and others charted threats climate change may have...
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