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Adaptation rational response climate change
2014-10-05 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oregonian: It is ironic to observe the ranting and pleading of those hoping to curtail climate change through human intervention when it is obvious that there is nothing significant that we humans can or will do to affect it. Unfortunately, the prevailing characteristics of the human species are self-interest, greed, tribalism and short-sightedness, none of which is conducive to intervention in this gradual and disruptive change to our environment. The projected increase in the world's population and the...
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Doubt climate change? Then support carbon taxes
2014-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Taxing greenhouse gases is a policy that deserves serious consideration -- the kind of consideration it just isn't getting in the U.S. The approach makes sense in theory and, where it has been tried, has worked in practice. The record shows that a well-designed carbon tax can cut harmful emissions in the most economically efficient way: by letting market forces coordinate the effort. Fears that a carbon tax set high enough to make any difference would harm the economy are contradicted by the evidence;...
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India's mixed climate change forecast
2014-10-04 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: AT THE start of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis trip to the United States, the signals werent good that the worlds third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases would change its tone on climate change. In the end, there was a little more room for encouragement . Mr. Modi, who won a crushing electoral victory in May, declined to attend last months United Nations climate summit in New York. When he did address a separate U.N. gathering, he earned the criticism of some observers when he seemed...
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Trying To Fight Climate Change Without Admitting We Are To Blame
2014-10-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: We`re all familiar with climate deniers - the politicians who proudly declare that 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong, and human carbon emissions aren`t driving up global temperatures to a potentially catastrophic degree. Opposing them are what Grist`s David Roberts termed "climate hawks" - people who think climate change is real, it`s extremely dangerous, and civilization`s use of fossil fuels is behind most of it. But in between, a strange twilight figure has risen for whom there is...
Climate Change Bigger Health Emergency Than Ebola
2014-10-02 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Ebola may be more dramatic, but climate change is a bigger threat to public health. That`s the conclusion of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, publishing since 1840. This week it ran an editorial calling on the UN`s World Health Organization (WHO) to declare climate change a public health emergency. "Deaths from Ebola infection, tragic and frightening though they are, will pale into insignificance when compared with the mayhem we can expect for our children...
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