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On climate change, much work is needed to save our globe
2014-08-31 23:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: A crack in a houses foundation, if not repaired, can continue to grow, ultimately destabilizing the structure and rendering it uninhabitable. Its occupants must then move to another home. But the worlds population cannot move somewhere else. Houses, while not cheap, are replaceable; our planet is not. Climate change, as we have known for years, is one such crack in the foundation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been studying the phenomenon since 1988. Twenty-two years ago, the...
Legal Case: White House Argues Against Considering Climate Change on Energy Projects
2014-08-31 21:23:07| Waste Management - Topix.net
Just over a month before the United Nations convenes on September 23 in New York City to discuss climate change and activists gather for a week of action, the Obama White House Council on Environmental Quality argued it does not have to offer guidance to federal agencies it coordinates with to consider climate change impacts for energy decisions.
Climate change tops UN summit agenda in Samoa
2014-08-31 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: It is the biggest event the tiny Pacific nation of Samoa has ever seen. A United Nations conference is getting underway to discuss the issues facing some of the worlds most vulnerable countries. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says economic and environmental sustainability will top the agenda. Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Apia.
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Will Climate Change Denialism Help the Russian Economy?
2014-08-30 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The recent call from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for "tightening belts" has convinced even optimists that something is deeply wrong with the Russian economy. No doubt the planned tax increases (introduction of a sales tax and increases in VAT and income tax) will inflict severe damage on most businesses and their employees, if last year's example of what happened when taxes were raised for individual entrepreneurs is anything to go by - 650,000 of them were forced to close their businesses....
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Climate Change Ups Odds of a Southwest Megadrought
2014-08-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If you think the drought in California is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. New research indicates that climate change is giving a boost to the odds of long-term drought across the Southwest. The research, published Thursday in the Journal of Climate, puts the chances of a megadrought lasting 35 years or longer at up to 50 percent in the region. It would be a drought of epic proportions that would wreak havoc on the region's already tenuous water supply for its growing population. "It's been...
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