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Nuclear power needed to tackle climate change, say leading scientists
2015-01-05 12:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Top conservation scientists have stated that in order to tackle climate change and protect the natural environment nuclear power must be considered. They warn that relying solely on renewables to replace fossil fuels is risky. In an open letter over 70 scientists call on environmentalist and campaign groups to stop focussing on idealistic perceptions of what is green and instead look at the benefits of nuclear power generation. Signatories state they support the broad conclusions of an...
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Viewpoint: Climate change is grave environmental threat
2015-01-03 03:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pensacola News Journal: With the start of a new term, Gov. Rick Scott faces a fresh opportunity to confront the gravest environmental threat of our time: climate change. But with Florida widely regarded as Americas ground zero for global warming, the state is moving in the wrong direction. State regulators recently acted to gut energy efficiency goals and end solar rebates. Thats wrong. And so is the governors refusal to address climate change despite a warning by the National Climate Assessment that Florida is...
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Study: Climate change raises risks of power outages
2015-01-01 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: In the December issue of Climatic Change, researchers suggest that increases in storm frequency, as predicted by some climate scientists, are likely to aggravate power outages in hurricane-prone areas like Miami or New Orleans. But if hurricanes become more intense, as many climate researchers expect, the study found severe outages could occur in areas that now suffer relatively few storm landfalls - such as New York, Philadelphia and Hartford, Conn. "Hartford [is] not some place you'd think of...
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People Will Pay To Stop Climate Change -- But Only $5
2015-01-01 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: People who worry about human-caused climate change are willing to pay higher energy bills to help stop it, but only up to 5 percent higher, or about $5 on the average American energy bill, according to a Harvard political scientist who has conducted a comprehensive survey of attitudes toward energy and climate for the last 12 years. Global warming is a huge problem for humanity that is foreseeable and possibly preventable, which makes it an excellent public policy problem to work on, and a depressing...
2015 Climate change target: 192 nations, two weeks of negotiations and one world to save
2014-12-31 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: In what is widely regarded as the last chance to save the world from the worst ravages of climate change, 192 nations have pledged to agree a global treaty at a two-week negotiating marathon in Paris at the end of 2015 setting themselves the most ambitious political task in history. The plan is for each country to commit to huge cuts in carbon emissions to give the world a reasonable chance of limiting global warming to 2C beyond which the consequences become increasingly devastating. Last...
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