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World cant wait until 2020 on climate change, says new, highly-disturbing IEA report
2013-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill Times: Politicians love to make bold commitments. But more times than not, they fail to follow up, perhaps hoping the public will forget once the headlines become a memory. In December, 2009, global leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, acknowledged that "deep cuts in emissions were required' if grave effects from climate change were to be avoided. That meant, the leaders said in their Copenhagen Accord, that the increase in global average temperature should be kept below two degrees Celsius...
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Robert Redford Calls On President To Fight Climate Change Now With Limits On Power Plant Carbon Pollution
2013-06-17 04:08:25| pollutiononline News Articles
In a new multimedia campaign,Robert Redfordis challenging President Obama to act now on climate change by reining in carbon pollution from the nation's biggest source, coal-fired power plants
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Overseas climate change threatens UK
2013-06-17 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change abroad will have a more immediate effect on the UK than climate change at home, a report says. Research by consultants PWC for Defra says the UK is likely to be hit by increasingly volatile prices of many commodities as the climate is disrupted. It warns that global production of some foodstuffs is concentrated in a few countries. These are likely to suffer increasing episodes of extreme weather. The report says there will be opportunities for the UK from climate change but these...
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Obama to Unveil Climate Change Package in July
2013-06-16 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing US greenhouse gas emissions. At closed-door fund-raisers held over the past few weeks, the president has been telling Democratic party donors that he will unveil new climate proposals in July, according to people who have attended the events or been briefed. Obama's promise frequently comes in response...
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Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute
2013-06-16 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: What goes up and doesn't come down? Greenhouse gas emissions, apparently. The world set another record in 2012, spewing some 31.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons and other greenhouse gases into the air. The 2012 contribution keeps us on pace for not one more degree Celsius of warming, or even two, as is the avowed goal of the international climate negotiations that saw another inconclusive round conclude this past week. We are on track for three degrees C of...
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