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Giant tower to monitor climate change in the Amazon
2014-10-28 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: In the Amazon, everything is big the trees, the rivers, the snakes, and the statistics that measure everything in numbers of football fields or areas the size of entire countries. Now one of the biggest towers in the world taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Chrysler Building in Chicago - is about to rise above the rainforest. The purpose of the 325-metre (1,066 feet) Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) is to gather vital information on how climate change is affecting the Amazon...
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Washington businesses push climate change action
2014-10-27 13:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Dozens of Washington state businesses such as REI, Microsoft Corp. and Virginia Mason on Monday signed a declaration supporting action to tackle climate change. At a news conference in Seattle, several executives said that businesses in Washington state can lead the way in finding innovative solutions to protect the region's natural resources and the economy. The businesses say they support cleaner fuels, energy efficiency, advancing renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Palmer's softer line increases govt hopes on direct action climate change policy
2014-10-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Senior Abbott government members are increasingly confident a deal to pass its direct action climate change policy will be reached before Christmas after Clive Palmer appeared to soften his party's hardline position on the scheme. Australia has been without a climate change policy since July, when it became the first country to abolish a carbon price and key crossbench senators stressed their opposition to direct action on the grounds it was expensive and would fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions....
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U.N. climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage
2014-10-26 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval this week that says governments still have time to avert the worst. Delegates from more than 100 governments and top scientists meet in Copenhagen on Oct 27-31 to edit the report, meant as the main guide for nations working on a U.N. deal to fight climate change at a summit in Paris in late 2015. They will publish the study on Nov. 2. European...
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Climate Change Caused By The Ocean
2014-10-25 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: Focus on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has led to a lot of confusion among the public: bad storms are caused by global warming but a lack of warming is not. There may be a reason things don't add up, according to a paper in Science. The circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in regulating the earth's climate, it finds. In their study, the researchers say the major cooling of Earth and continental ice build-up in the Northern Hemisphere 2.7 million years ago coincided with...
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