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Taiwan's part in combating climate change, because Taiwan is part of Gaia
2015-11-22 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangor Daily News: During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a self-regulating, complex system and that human beings constitute one organ of this entity. The well-being of the planet is, thus, dependent on humankinds ability to achieve an appropriate balance between economic and social development and environmental protection. As a responsible member of the global village, Taiwan has long been committed and proactive in its efforts to tackle...
May says text climate change treaty 'weak in about 100 different parts'
2015-11-22 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is warning that a global climate change treaty, to be finalized at a major international summit in Paris next month, is "weak" in about 100 areas. May told CTVs Question Period that she is worried about the deal. Im nervous about the fate of the treaty and about the text that needs to be resolved, which right now is weak in about a 100 different parts that we have to try to put together, said May. Particularly critical for May is Article 17 of the draft...
Alberta set to unveil climate change policy
2015-11-22 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Alberta is set to unveil its long-awaited climate change policy today. The announcement comes 24 hours before Premier Rachel Notley is scheduled to discuss the plan with the federal government in Ottawa and days before she heads to Paris for an international meeting on the issue. Notley has signalled some of the broad outlines the plan is expected to include. The policy, dubbed "Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan," will likely include a price on carbon. Alberta already charges $30 a tonne...
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Climate change is world's most pressing problem
2015-11-22 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oregonian: In 2001, Linfield College hosted F. Sherwood Rowland, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina for their discovery of the chemistry underlying depletion of stratospheric ozone. Sherry Rowland told me that I should develop a course aimed at students majoring in areas outside the sciences, teaching them about stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming. I've been teaching that course nearly every year since then. My students and I have come to conclusions...
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Paris climate talks: Six years on, climate change is killing fish, flooding our fields
2015-11-22 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They are humanitys hope for tomorrow, but each faces a future that looks increasing bleak and uncertain. Born in four different parts of the globe, these children came into the world in the weeks leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. At the time, the Observer described the lives of these young people as their families struggled to cope with the impact of climate change. Now, before the Paris climate summit at the end of the month, we have returned to meet those...
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