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Catastrophe Claim Adds Fuel Methane Debate
2014-05-16 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A Cornell University scientist's claims that oil and gas development is so harmful to the climate that methane emissions and oil and gas production in general need to be cut back immediately to avoid a "global catastrophe" are adding more fuel to the scientific debate over the climate implications of shale oil and gas production. Fossil fuels production is the largest methane pollution source in the U.S., and ignoring those emissions will lead to a climate change "tipping point' from which there...
Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap, But Only If We Act Now
2014-04-14 10:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: Humanitys choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. The latest IPCC report finds the annual cost of avoiding that catastrophe is a mere 0.06% of annual growth. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just issued its third of four planned reports. This one is on mitigation -- human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance...
UN Urges Governments To Triple Use of Renewables or Face Climate Catastrophe
2014-04-13 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IB Times: The use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power will have to be tripled to avoid a potentially devastating 4C-5C rise in global temperatures, the UN has warned. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, to be released in Berlin today, will claim that global greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade were the "highest in human history". In order to prevent temperatures rising by more than 2C, global greenhouse gas levels will have to be slashed by up to...
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IPCC climate report: averting catastrophe eminently affordable
2014-04-13 12:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards, according to a landmark UN report published on Sunday. It concludes the transformation required to a world of clean energy and the ditching of dirty fossil fuels is eminently affordable. The authoritative report, produced by 1250 international experts and approved by 194 governments, dismisses fears that slashing carbon emissions would wreck the world economy. It is the final part of a definitive trilogy that has...
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Climate inaction to be 'catastrophe'
2014-03-31 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The costs of inaction on climate change will be "catastrophic", according to US Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry was responding to a major report by the UN which described the impacts of global warming as "severe, pervasive and irreversible". He said dramatic and swift action was required to tackle the threats posed by a rapidly changing climate. Our health, homes, food and safety are all likely to be threatened by rising temperatures, the report says. Scientists and officials...
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