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UN climate change panel: two graphs that tell the real story of the IPCC report
2013-10-07 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Millions of words have been written about the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But for me, two key messages stand out one for its importance, the other for its lack of importance, relative to the attention that it has received. Since our interactive graph about temperatures in your lifetime has generated so much interest, I thought I'd do a graph to explain each of these two points too. Commentators such as Matt Ridley and David Rose who are keen to play down...
Climate change and the politics of consensus
2013-10-07 03:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Can a newspaper group achieve consensus on the science of climate change? Last Thursday, in an article on the pseudo debate that is currently impeding the communication of climate change in Australia, I called for reforms to journalistic standards to address the urgency of this issue, and in comments pointed out the inconsistencies amongst News Corp columnists on the facts of the science. My article drew a response from one of News Corps star columnists, Andrew Bolt, who accused me of among...
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Australia: Climate change threat to jobs can't be wished away
2013-10-06 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This post is a guest blog by Andrew Dettmer, the national president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Climate change threat to jobs can't be wished away I have news for Tony Abbott. Abolishing the price on carbon won't make climate change go away. Abolishing the Climate Commission won't make climate change go away. Believing the opinion of shock jocks as opposed to the facts of science won't make climate change go away. Wishing it wasn't so is not going to save our...
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Climate change is real and denial is not about the science
2013-10-06 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Antonio Express: A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms what we already know. First, the climate system is definitely warming. Second, humans are now a dominant driver of the climate and are very likely to be responsible for most of the recent warming we have experienced. And future warming over the 21st century will likely be several degrees. While a few degrees may not sound like a lot of warming, changes in the global average temperature this large have, in the past, been...
Climate change and how New Zealand cities are preparing for it
2013-10-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the battle for global sustainability will be won or lost in the world's cities. Cities and urban areas are estimated to account for 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and more than half of the world's population live in them, so what we do in our urban centres will, to a large extent, define the future of our world. Governments are struggling to agree on action against climate change, but thankfully many city authorities are...
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