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Viewpoints Q&A: How climate change may affect Californians
2013-06-23 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, the ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, asked the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced a series of questions about the effects of climate change on California as background for policy development. The following are some of the responses from Sierra Nevada Research Institute director Roger Bales and senior researcher Norm Miller. What are the most serious threats facing Northern California because of climate change? Northern California,...
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Climate Change: Russia Is Steamed About U.N's Kyoto Carbon Credit COP-Out
2013-06-23 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Representatives of Russia and other Eastern bloc countries at the recent climate talks in Bonn made it clear that they arent one bit happy about efforts within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Changes Conference of Parties (COP) to cap their free Soviet-era carbon credit trading green stamps previously gifted to them under the Kyoto Protocol. The original deal was that signatory nations that reduced carbon emissions by targeted amounts under their 1990 levels would be able to sell credits...
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President Barack Obama, climate change: A new climate control plan will be released Tuesday
2013-06-23 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is preparing to unveil his long-awaited national plan to combat climate change in a major speech, he announced on Saturday. "There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change," Obama said in an online video released by the White House. "But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can." People consulting with White House officials on Obama's plan, to be unveiled Tuesday at Georgetown University, say they expect...
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Obama to lay out climate change plan in Tuesday speech
2013-06-22 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama said on Saturday that he will outline a climate change plan on Tuesday centered around reducing pollution from carbon emissions as he attempts to make good on a pledge for his second term. "This Tuesday, I'll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go - a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it," he said in a White House video. Obama made tackling climate change a top...
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Helping Lanka tackle climate change
2013-06-22 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Observer: Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha inaugurated a program recently to put forests at the heart of Sri Lanka's strategy to tackle climate change. The program will help Sri Lanka to prepare for an international mechanism to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). It will be part of a future international comprehensive agreement to tackle global warming, which is currently being negotiated through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
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