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Gap between emissions cuts and dangerous climate change widens, report says
2013-11-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Keeping global temperatures below a dangerous threshold by 2020 risks becoming a distant dream, a new U.N. Environment Programme report finds. Greenhouse gas emissions levels are "considerably higher" than what will be needed to keep the global average temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius, making it increasingly likely that the world will have to rely on costlier technologies like carbon capture and sequestration in order to meet the threshold in the coming decades, the "Emissions Gap...
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Climate change 'exaggerated', says former Australian PM
2013-11-06 03:38:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: John Howard has told an audience of climate sceptics in London that Tony Abbott's defiance on global warming in the face of left-wing zealotry was the foundation of his electoral victory in September. In a lecture at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, established by former Thatcher minister and climate sceptic Nigel Lawson, the former Australian prime minister insisted that the high tide of public support for "overzealous action" on global warming has passed. "I am very sceptical about the...
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Delay will make climate change moves riskier
2013-11-06 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The world will have to rely on more difficult, costlier and riskier means of meeting the target of limiting global warming at 2 degrees after 2020 unless countries move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The Emissions Gap Report 2013, released yesterday by the UN Environment Programme (Unep), warned that the door to limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees at the end of this century will be closed if the gap is not bridged or significantly narrowed. It estimates...
Australia: John Howard rejects climate change claims
2013-11-05 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WA Today: Former prime minister John Howard has poured scorn on the "alarmist" scientific consensus on global warming in a speech to a gathering of British climate sceptics, comparing those calling for action on climate change to religious zealots. Mr Howard said he was an "agnostic" on climate science and he preferred to rely on his instinct, which told him that predictions of doom were exaggerated. Former Prime Minister John Howard told the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group of UK climate change...
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Leaked IPCC Draft Cites Widespread Effects of Climate Change, Calls for Action
2013-11-04 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A leaked draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "Summary for Policymakers" cites "widespread and consequential" impacts throughout the globe as a result of climate change. Published on the site No Frakking Consensus, the draft identifies a variety of impacts on ecosystems and societies the changing global climate has, and will have, in coming years. Already, climate change has forced land and sea species to shift "their ranges, seasonal activities, migration patterns, and abundance,...
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