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US to put climate change 'front & center' diplomatic efforts
2014-09-22 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, promised to put climate change front and center of American diplomacy on Monday, raising expectations for this weeks United Nations climate summit. A day before the first world leaders meeting on climate change in five years, Kerry said he would take it upon himself to make sure the international community steps up to deal with the threat. This is an enormous challenge, and this is why the United States is prepared to take the lead in order to bring...
Climate change summit: Global rallies demand action
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide. The People's Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week. In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Earlier, huge demonstrations took place in Australia and Europe. "This is the planet where our subsequent...
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Climate change is happening despite two decades of UN climate talks
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: World leaders have been trying to forge a global treaty on climate change for more than two decades. But persuading countries to abandon profitable fossil fuels -- and instead spend trillions of dollars on new technology and environmental protections -- has proved nearly impossible. The Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, expired two years ago with little discernable impact on greenhouse gas emissions. (The United States signed, but never ratified, the agreement.) Attempts to work out a successor...
Humble sparrow gives clues about climate change impact on birds
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The adage about canaries in the coal mine could similarly be applied to the humble sparrow which is being studied to gauge the impact of climate change on birds. Scientists from Macquarie University in New South Wales are spending 2014 carrying out the Sparrow Project. A few hundred sparrows were introduced to Australia from England in the 1860s. They have adapted well to the harsher climate and millions are now thriving as far north as Cape York to Tasmania in the south. The research...
Six ways climate change is making us sick
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Just a day after the People`s Climate March, one of the largest international environmental marches, a new analysis of 56 studies on climate change-related health problems shows that increasingly, global temperatures and severe weather events will continue to have a major impact on global health. In the U.S. alone, several cities are expected to experience many more frequent hot days by the year 2050, and New York City and Milwaukee for example, may have three times their current average of hot...
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