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Climate change: Is the 1.5 C target a mirage?
2016-04-21 10:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Paris Agreement to try to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius was a stunning political victory for poor countries threatened by climate change. But scientists tasked with explaining how to get there are less than thrilled. The U.N.`s climate science panel announced last week it would deliver -- at the request of governments -- a "special report" in 2018 on the risks and impacts associated with a target of 1.5 C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But even as three-quarters of the 195 nations...
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It's too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed but wait that's the good news
2016-04-20 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: It was a full decade ago now that not-quite-president Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim captured the worlds attention with An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on the premise that we still had time to prevent or limit the most devastating effects of climate change if we acted immediately. In case you havent noticed, we didnt. In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the film, depicting it as some partisan,...
World Bank Zeros In On Climate Change With $16B Annual Budget
2016-04-19 13:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The World Bank, the biggest provider of loans to developing countries, announced it will dedicate 28 percent of its financial investments to confronting climate change. This amounts to approximately $16 billion a year for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate resiliency projects. In addition to its own financing, the World Bank said it would work to mobilize $25 billion in commercial funding for clean energy over the next five years. If we dont act, climate change threatens to drive...
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Maryland lawmakers act on climate change, land preservation, pollinators and oysters
2016-04-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bay Journal: Maryland lawmakers act on climate change, land preservation, pollinators and oysters Poultry bills, several other green priorities failed, though, as environment "wasn't that front and center" in Annapolis Ambitious climate change goals, pesticide restrictions and a study aimed at sustaining the Chesapeake Bay's vital oyster population top a short list of environmental legislation that passed Maryland's General Assembly this year. But the 90-day session in Annapolis, which ended late Monday...
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Impact of climate change on Indigenous communities
2016-04-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: When singer, songwriter, storyteller and music therapist Getano Bann talks about climate change he talks about connection to country. Mr Bann draws on a tradition of telling "life stories" to build empathy, asking people to imagine themselves as an ancestor on an island in the Torres Strait, at the beginning of time. "This is your island and you grow old and you have children," he said. "Then for thousands and thousands of years your children have told the story of you: our ancestor who's...
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