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Canada: IPCC report shows action on climate change is critical
2013-10-02 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straight: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released the first of four chapters of its Fifth Assessment Report. It shows scientists are more certain now than in 2007 when the Fourth Assessment was released that humans are largely responsible for global warming--mainly by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests--and that its getting worse and poses a serious threat to humanity. It contains hints of optimism, though, and shows addressing the problem creates opportunities. The IPCC...
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Climate change is happening, so don't shoot the messenger
2013-10-01 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite the attention given to climate change sceptics, the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence supports those sounding the alarm including the IPCC Share Tweet this Email Wrong priorities? Labour leader Ed Miliband announced last week that he would freeze energy bills if elected. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Emperor Hu Hai of the Qin dynasty in ancient China had an aide killed when he tried to tell the emperor his power was ebbing away. There was an uprising against...
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Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a Catastrophic Climate Breakdown
2013-10-01 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Already, a thousand blogs and columns insist the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report is a rabid concoction of scare stories whose purpose is to destroy the global economy. But it is, in reality, highly conservative. Reaching agreement among hundreds of authors and reviewers ensures that only the statements which are hardest to dispute are allowed to pass. Even when the scientists have agreed, the report must be tempered in another forge, as politicians question anything they...
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Climate change grows up
2013-09-30 15:35:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A serving British prime minister seldom delivers a speech to the Royal Society, but then there have not been many prime ministers who have been trained scientists. Today all of human life is lived not just in the presence of a physically changing planet, but in the new cultural spaces created by the idea of climate change. But Margaret Thatcher was one, and on Sept. 27, 1988 she delivered a 20-minute speech to the Royal Society about the environment. Her central theme: The greenhouse effect...
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Climate change report renews pressure on Government
2013-09-30 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The latest global warming outlook paints a grim picture for Australia - a future of extreme weather, heatwaves and rising seas. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reaffirmed that humans cause global warming and that temperatures are on the way up. As Hayden Cooper reports, the release has renewed pressure on the Government to reconsider its greenhouse targets. HAYDEN COOPER, REPORTER: It's official: the mercury is rising, the oceans are changing and this...
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