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Climate change may cost six times more than the US government says
2015-01-15 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The United States is underestimating the true economic cost of carbon emissions by as much as 83%, according to a new study that suggests governments should be moving faster and more drastically to curb the level of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. The findings are based on the Stanford University researchers' recalculation of the "social cost of carbon,' an estimate of the economic damages caused by each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted in a year. The social cost...
Is meaningful action to address climate change possible given our economic systems?
2015-01-13 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Its increasingly obvious that the global economic system, and particularly the current brand of U.S. capitalism, are not really compatible with the actions needed to combat climate change. Naomi Klein makes this point clear in This Changes Everything, which is both a passionate and controversial polemic and a reasoned discussion of the issues and forces stalling, and indeed preventing, a comprehensive response to climate change. The problem is not the political and ideological divisions or scientific...
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India should lead fight against climate change: UN chief
2015-01-13 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said India was an important and critical state in the United Nations and it should lead the campaign to address climate change so that there will be a universal and meaningful agreement in Paris this year-end. The Secretary General spoke during a goodwill visit to Paryavaran Bhavan, the headquarters of the Ministry of Environment on Tuesday morning at the invitation of its Minister Prakash Javadekar. He said he was counting on the continuing leadership...
Australia: Climate change: Why some of us won't believe it's getting hotter
2015-01-10 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: What is it about the temperature that some of us find so hard to accept? The year just ended was one of the hottest on record. In NSW it was the absolute hottest, in Victoria the second-hottest, and in Australia the third hottest. The first step in getting people to at least agree that its getting hotter is to stop talking about how to prevent it. Muddying the two, as we do all the time, gets peoples backs up. The measure is compiled by the Bureau of Meteorology. It dates back to 1910....
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Climate change skeptic takes reins of Brazil's science ministry
2015-01-10 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: The appointment of a reputed climate change denier as the head of Brazils science ministry has some scientists worried about the countrys environmental future. Others are withholding judgment, at least until the new minister, Aldo Rebelo, appoints the team of scientists and policymakers who will work with him for the next 4 years. Rebelo, a hard-line communist, labeled climate change an environmental scam in a 2010 open letter to environmentalist Marcio Santilli, according to Bloomberg View....
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