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Climate Change Casualties: Honey, Coffee, Chocolate
2013-03-17 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The first couple weeks of March have brought a spate of disturbing climate change results. Humans are clever problem solvers and exceptional toolmakers. It's crucial for our species to prepare for what's ahead by lowering carbon emissions and future-proofing towns and cities worldwide. Let's look at some of this new information and then examine its impacts specifically on three important and lucrative world commodities. On March 5 NOAAs team measuring greenhouse gases near a volcano in Mauna...
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Global business responses to climate change: Where to now?
2013-03-17 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Despite the widespread scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic climate change, ideological rhetoric dominates the global political discourse. This is preventing the development of clear policy frameworks that companies need for long-term investments. In spite of this, there are signs of progress at the international, national and corporate levels. A growing number of countries, or states within them, are instituting measures to price carbon emissions. By the end of 2013 an estimated 850 million...
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At climate change conference, Sanders leads call for action
2013-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Argus: It was fitting that on a day devoted to talking about global warming, a makeshift parking lot at Montpelier High School was a mud pit by 1 p.m. in the middle of March. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., hosted a conference on climate change Saturday at Montpelier High School. Around 400 Vermonters heard from Sanders, state officials, students at the University of Vermont and climate author Bill McKibben about what may happen to the planet if something is not done to curb climate change. Global warming...
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Maine grapples with climate change priorities
2013-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Sentinel: When Hurricane Sandy slammed into the New York and New Jersey coasts last fall, killing 72 people and causing tens of billions in damage, many saw it as a wake-up call: The country is unprepared for the increased frequency and intensity of freak weather events -- a long-predicted result of climate change -- and a great deal of planning needs to be done to protect homes, infrastructure and businesses. "Regardless of the cause of these storms, New York state must undertake major reforms to adapt...
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Geoengineering Research Needs Better Guidelines, Climate Change Experts Say
2013-03-17 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: With no clear rules to guide new research, scientists are shying away from examining whether geoengineering technologies can effectively cool the planet, and at what cost. Thats the warning put forth by a pair of climate change experts in an essay published Thursday in the journal Science. This deadlock poses real threats to sound management of climate risk, write Harvard University climate scientist David Keith and UCLA environmental law expert Edward Parson. Geoengineering may be needed...
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