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Calif lawmakers advance aggressive climate change plans
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: California lawmakers on Wednesday pushed through an ambitious climate change package to further reduce the states carbon footprint and boost the use of renewable energy to 50 percent in 15 years. The state Senate passed proposals to enact Gov. Jerry Browns call to curb greenhouse gas emissions by setting what the administration calls the most aggressive benchmark in North America over the objection of Republicans who characterized such regulation as coastal elitism that would kill working-class...
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State Senate OKs climate change bill, seeks ban new offshore drilling
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: State senators passed legislation Wednesday intended to help California tackle climate change by setting new targets for generating renewable energy, reducing gasoline use and increasing energy efficiency in buildings. The lawmakers also approved a measure that would ban new offshore oil drilling from an area in the Santa Barbara Channel known as Tranquillon Ridge, two weeks after an oil spill at nearby Refugio State Beach. The climate change bill, which now goes to the Assembly with other...
Minister blames India's heatwave on climate change, as death toll reaches 2500
2015-06-03 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A heatwave which has claimed the lives of up to 2,500 people in India, and the subsequent delayed monsoon rains, are the results of climate change, the country's Minister for Earth Sciences has said. The death toll in the country has continued to rise since extreme temperatures began in mid-April. Meanwhile, cooling monsoon rains, expected to bring relief to those experiencing temperatures of up to 47C, have been delayed by at least five days, it has been reported. Earth Sciences Minister...
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India minister blames climate change deadly heatwave, weak monsoon
2015-06-02 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's earth sciences minister has blamed climate change for a heatwave that has killed 2,500 people and for deficient monsoon rains, after the government said on Tuesday the country was headed for its first drought in six years. "Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon," Harsh Vardhan said. "It's not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change," he said. The minister's...
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Climate change boosts rain in Africa's Sahel region: study
2015-06-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate change, a study said on Monday. The report adds to debate about the causes of a greening of the Sahel region, south of the Sahara Desert from Senegal to Sudan. It said a continued rise in greenhouse gas emissions was likely to help more rainfall in the region in future. "Amounts of rainfall have recovered substantially,"...
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