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Climate change report: IPCC finds governments unprepared
2014-03-30 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Before the press conference begins at 9am local time (about 25 minutes from now), we can take a look at what we already know. There have been several drafts of the report leaked already, giving fair indication of the warnings to come from the IPCC. According to the most recent leaked draft, the effects of climate change are already being felt "on all continents and across the oceans." An already approved section reveals Arctic ecosystems and warm water coral reefs are already experiencing "irreversible...
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Exxon Agrees to Reveal Climate Change Risks
2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living On Earth: Activist investors in major fossil fuel companies have been filing shareholder resolutions that ask the corporations to disclose their plans to address global warming, and the potential carbon regulation that could be coming. Danielle Fugere, President of the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, tells host Steve Curwood that Exxon Mobil has agreed. Transcript CURWOOD: As the climate crisis becomes more apparent, shareholders are pushing fossil fuel corporations to say what impact global warming...
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Climate change 'complicates' global security
2014-03-30 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees, the world's top scientists say. A United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to global conflicts, in an authoritative report to be released on Monday. The panel is not saying it will cause violence, but will be an added factor making things even more dangerous. Fights over resources, like water and energy, hunger...
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Report: Climate change to affect NZ agriculture
2014-03-30 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3 News: Famine, fire, flooding, species extinctions and global violence -- it sounds like the apocalypse but they are all things likely to become more common as the Earth gets warmer. Tomorrow the most authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date report on how climate will affect humanity is being released. The picture it will paint is not a pretty one. Earlier this month Christchurch was hit by a one-in-100-year storm while Waikato and Northland farmers were and continue to be in drought-like conditions....
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Davey declares Britain must lead climate change fight
2014-03-30 05:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ITV: On the eve of a ground-breaking UN report into the impacts of climate change, Energy Secretary Ed Davey has declared Britain must spearhead the worldwide battle against global warming. Climate change is "hugely threatening our way of life, in the UK, Europe and the world," Mr Davey told The Observer. "Not to lead is deeply irresponsible. If you don't lead, you will not bring others with you," the Lib Dem MP said. His comments come as the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares...
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