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Star-studded 24-hour worldwide broadcast on climate change airs Friday
2015-11-13 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: What happens when you combine former Vice President Al Gore, musical acts like Elton John, Jon Bon Jovi, and Hozier, heads of state, and global business leaders? You have "24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World is Watching," a live 24-hour telethon aimed at generating interest around climate change awareness leading to the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris. The event is produced by The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit centered on education and advocacy surrounding climate change, and...
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Its time for climate change research to be less political
2015-11-12 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Texan: Climate change is no matter of opinion. As its impacts become more devastating, inaction has become unthinkable. Even so, politicians who deny climate change have enormous power over climate policy and research. But now more than ever, unscientific political opinions should have no room in discussion about climate science. UT students' representatives in particular have an outsize influence on federal climate policy. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) chairs the Senate Committee on Space, Science, and...
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Climate change could pummel stocks: study
2015-11-12 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Environmentalists aren't the only ones fretting over climate change. A new study has calculated the risk to financial markets if temperatures are allowed to rise uninhibited. Inaction, it said, would be a bad investment. A fresh study by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership has put a price tag on climate change mitigation. Investment portfolios primarily made up of stocks could lose nearly half of their value if global warming isn't curbed. By contrast, if the Earth's temperature...
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Cities must take lead role in tackling climate change, says Mexico City mayor
2015-11-12 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Once notorious for air pollution, Mexico Citys ability to clean its skies has shown it can also be a leader in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to the citys mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera. Speaking at the signing of a new pledge to commit the equivalent of 10% of the citys discretionary budget to defined resilience goals many of which are environment-related Mancera stressed the role that megacities will have to play in tackling global warming. Cities are drivers for...
Climate change, more driving time, less fishing time
2015-11-12 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangor Daily News: Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is dying, can avert a complete denaturing of the world. This observation by writer Jonathan Franzen nicely captures the challenge of understanding climate changes impacts on nature. As Franzen also notes, climate change is so big that its everybodys -- and nobodys -- problem. To initiate change, we need to understand its impacts on a human scale. In an effort to communicate...
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