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Trump: Climate change scientists have 'political agenda'
2018-10-15 06:53:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The US president says he accepts the climate is changing, but does not want to "lose millions of jobs".
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Scientists warn mankind will miss crucial climate change target eight months after agreeing it
2016-08-07 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on. Climate change scientists have warned it may be nearly impossible to keep global warming below the 1.5C target set at the Paris negotiations in December after temperatures peaked at 1.38C above pre-industrial levels in February and March. Met Office data analysed by Reading University professor Ed Hawkins showed average global temperatures were more than 1C over...
Scientists warn world will miss key climate target
2016-08-06 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5C upper limit for global warming, only eight months after the target was set. The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5C, measured in relation to pre-industrial temperatures, was the headline outcome of the Paris climate negotiations last December. The talks were hailed as a major success by scientists and campaigners, who claimed that, by setting the target, desertification, heatwaves, widespread...
Russia: For climate scientists, the Siberian anthrax outbreak is a sign of whats to come
2016-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Standard: If youre a climate scientist, what happens when your dire predictions start coming true? The ongoing anthrax outbreak in Siberia is offering us a preview: What was once considered a future theoretical possibility??a re-animated deadly bacterium emerging from the permafrost??is now a reality. Throughout July, temperatures in northern Siberia have soared as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) during whats typically the warmest part of the year. Its unknown exactly how the disease...
Scientists tease out climate changes role in Zika spread
2016-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Athletes and tourists converging on Brazil this week are crowding into a country where rapid environmental change and natural weather fluctuations nurtured a viral epidemic that has gone global. The Zika virus has exploded throughout South America, up through Mexico and Puerto Rico and into Florida, but the conditions it needed to fester in northern Brazil were rooted in urbanization and poverty. The initial Brazilian outbreak appears to have been aided by a drought driven by El Nio, and by higher...
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