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Beyond climate change treaties: 'a deal in Paris is not essential'
2014-09-29 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United Nations Climate Summit in New York last week passed with many promises, but no firm pledges. Most notably, Chinas vice-premier Zhang Gaoli promised his country would peak its carbon dioxide emissions as soon as possible, and President Obama said that next year he would publish a plan to cut US emissions after 2020. On the fringes, major corporations trading in agricultural commodities grown on former rainforest land joined with governments in signing a declaration promising to halve...
The fingerprint of climate change on the California drought, extreme weather in 2013
2014-09-29 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Researchers studying the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on extreme weather events in 2013 have found that it played a role in half of the events that they looked at, including the California drought and extreme heat events. Climate change attribution figuring out what role climate change is playing in our weather events is a very difficult science. There are so many moving parts: ground-level weather conditions, large-scale atmospheric patterns, and global teleconnections, like...
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Climate Change: More Disasters Needed to Motivate Individual Behavior Change?
2014-09-26 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Over 310,000 people marched last Sunday to call for action on climate change. The People's Climate March aimed to press policymakers that would meet two days later at the UN Climate Summit, a preparation for the next Conference of the Parties (COP). Hundreds of thousands showing that despite of political slow action, awareness on climate change has increased in the last years, together with the feeling that it is the biggest crisis of our century. Climate change has increasingly influenced development...
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Climate Change Linked to Spread of Lyme Disease
2014-09-26 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As if we needed another reason to deplore the impacts of climate change, its warming effects are encouraging the northward spread of Lyme disease, carried by the black-legged tick which rides on deer, rodents and dogs, the Daily Climate reports. While common in the U.S., it was rare in Canada until recently. Because of that, Canadians eventually diagnosed with the disease were delayed in getting appropriate treatment. But with more attention comes more action. This summer legislation to promote...
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Africa adds climate change bonds to global warming arsenal
2014-09-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming in Africa may soon move bond markets. In 2016, the first climate change bonds will be issued from Africa - unique instruments that will enable the world's poorest continent to tap both capital markets and donor funds to bolster its defenses against extreme weather events such as prolonged drought or extreme heat. The plan, unveiled on the sidelines of the U.N. climate summit in New York this week, will see an initial issue of around $200 million for up to five years. If successful,...
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