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Why the 'We're All Responsible' Line is a Climate Change Cop-Out
2016-07-06 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desmog: To no ones surprise, theres been an awfully wide range of responses to what caused the catastrophic Fort McMurray wildfires. Some blame climate change. Others peg it on the El Nio and forest management techniques. Still more suggest that nows simply not the time to be having such a conversation. But the one thing that appears to unite all sides is our alleged complicity in it as North American consumers. For instance, the National Posts Jen Gerson argued in a May 5 piece: We are...
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Asia is imperiled by COP21s climate cop-out
2016-01-16 07:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: The nations of the world gathered at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) last month to come to an agreement on the urgent mission of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, all they produced was an attractive vision statement that is more sham than solution. It is imperative that the world invests significantly and quickly in climate mitigation strategies to reduce the human and economic cost of climate change, which is where COP21 fell short. The vague wording of the final declaration gives...
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Climate Change: Russia Is Steamed About U.N's Kyoto Carbon Credit COP-Out
2013-06-23 08:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Representatives of Russia and other Eastern bloc countries at the recent climate talks in Bonn made it clear that they arent one bit happy about efforts within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Changes Conference of Parties (COP) to cap their free Soviet-era carbon credit trading green stamps previously gifted to them under the Kyoto Protocol. The original deal was that signatory nations that reduced carbon emissions by targeted amounts under their 1990 levels would be able to sell credits...
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