Climate news from the last 30 days is listed below.
20.05.2013
BusinessGreen
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Awareness of dangers is improving, but companies must realise 'globalisation means disaster doesn't stop at the office door'
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19.05.2013
The Guardian
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Forecast global temperature rise of 4C a calamity for large swaths of planet even if predicted extremes are not reached
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Reuters
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Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday.
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15.05.2013
The Economic Times
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Mount Everest is shedding its frozen cloak as its glaciers have shrunk at an alarming rate of 13% over the last 50 years due to global warming, a new study has warned.
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China Daily
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- China has done well in terms of regional cooperation on the economic front, but it is time for tighter laws and more regional efforts to fight air pollution through market mechanisms.
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14.05.2013
Daily Climate
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Africa's Sahel has seen drought and downpours intensify, but scientists don't know whether the long-term trend is drier or wetter. And that has huge policy and humanitarian implications.
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13.05.2013
The Washington post
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For the first time in 2 million years, levels of chief greenhouse gas hit 400 parts per million.
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10.05.2013
Alaska Public Media
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Environmental changes from climate warming are hitting the Arctic harder and faster than anyone predicted. This week, top Arctic scientists have been meeting in Anchorage looking for better ways to investigate and even track the changes and what they could mean.
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The Guardian
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Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today
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Barents Observer
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By 2100 the climate in the Nordic countries could be similar to what we see in France today, and seasonal variations might be almost gone in parts of northern-Europe, says researcher Hans Tømmervik.
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08.05.2013
RTCC
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The Danish Government has committed US$2 million to renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the Pacific.
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IPS
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Life is difficult enough for communities on the remote southern Weather Coast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Sustaining a livelihood from the land is a daily struggle on the steep coastal mountain slopes that plunge to the sea, made worse by the absence of adequate roads, transport and government services. And now, climate change is taking its toll on the already precarious food situation here.
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The Guardian
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Islanders must adapt as environmental impact of climate change affects centuries-old ways of life
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07.05.2013
Economic Times
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Monday that in the quest for binding international emissions targets to fight global warming, doing nothing is "not an option".
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06.05.2013
The Guardian
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Leading health experts are urging the government to take action against the growing threat that mosquito-borne diseases, including potentially fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK.
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30.04.2013
Market Watch - Wall Street Journal
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Commentary: We need to spend $3.6 trillion to upgrade, modernize
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29.04.2013
NBC News
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Shhh! Widespread adoption of energy-efficient technologies such as compact fluorescent light bulbs and electric cars promises to curb the pace of global climate change. But if widespread adoption is the goal, don't mention the environmental benefits, a new paper suggests.
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Reuters
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The world's least developed countries are sending out signals that they are willing to put their economic development on a low-carbon path, but questions remain as to how this can be achieved without more financial and technology support from rich nations.
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28.04.2013
E! Science News
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As temperatures warm, plants release gases that help form clouds and cool the atmosphere, according to research from IIASA and the University of Helsinki.
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27.04.2013
Mother Jones
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Paleoanthropologist and Berkeley professor Tim White has been waiting for years to drill into the Gulf of Aden near the Indian Ocean seabed for ancient ashes from African volcanoes.
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26.04.2013
The Guardian
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The US shift from coal in power plants and Europe's economic slowdown were among reasons for drop in emissions
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The Guardian
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Campaign group Organizing for Action says it is time to call out US politicians who deny the science behind climate change
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25.04.2013
NY Times
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Shortly after winning re-election in November, President Obama promised assertive leadership on climate change and energy. In his State of the Union address in February, he vowed that if the assembled lawmakers failed to pass broad climate legislation, he would act unilaterally. And yet in the ensuing months, little more has been heard from the president or his cabinet on the matter.
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Red Orbit
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When corals become stressed, they expel their symbiotic algae companions in a process known as "bleaching." Corals can survive the bleaching, but it leaves them highly vulnerable and often results in die-off.
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Grist
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Researchers at the University of Western Australia found that people who expressed faith in free-market ideology were also likely to reject scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that burning fossil fuels helps to cause it.
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24.04.2013
The Guardian
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The Committee on Climate Change warned that relying on gas would scupper the UK's chances of meeting emissions targets
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RTCC
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Saudi Arabia is leading calls for climate change to be omitted from the UN’s 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The International Herald Tribune
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"We have suggested building several upstream water reservoirs in Pakistan to prevent floods. We are also examining reforestation as it slows down the process of floods and subsequent droughts," Marius Keller, an adaptation consultant with the International Institute of Sustainable Development, said speaking to Lahore University of Management Sciences students on Monday.
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Climate Progress
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Policymakers in developed countries are increasingly looking to leverage private sector funds to finance climate action in developing nations, filling the gap left by tight government budgets and a lack of political focus on climate change in the United States and other major emitting countries.
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23.04.2013
The Financial Times
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The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Nebraska raises concerns about pollution that were not adequately assessed by a US government study, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has concluded, in a sign of divisions within the Obama administration over the controversial project.
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International Herald Tribune (blog)
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The value of carbon-based investments - many traded publicly - could implode once governments start seriously curbing emissions, bursting what some have dubbed 'the carbon bubble.'
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The Energy Collective
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Under the Obama Administration, the United States has invested internationally in addressing climate change. President Obama’s budget request for this upcoming year continues to support these international climate investments, but unfortunately his request is short of what is needed.
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Science Daily
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Nearly 34 million years ago, Earth underwent a transformation from a warm, high-carbon dioxide "greenhouse" state to a lower-CO2, variable climate similar to the modern "icehouse" world. Massive ice sheets grew across the Antarctic continent, major animal groups shifted, and ocean temperatures decreased by as much as 5 degrees.
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Business Green
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Analysts predict green energy will account for up to 74 per cent of new power capacity added by 2030 worldwide, despite current market difficulties
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22.04.2013
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Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the ocean.
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Mongabay
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From 1971 to 2000, the world's land areas were the warmest they have been in at least 1,400 years, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.
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AlertNet
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Can legal reforms help affected communities have a bigger say about African land deals?
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The Independent
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Cross-party group pours cold water on Osborne's hopes shale gas will solve energy problems
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Climate Central
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Fossil fuel subsidies provided by both rich and poor countries to keep their citizens happy are holding back the world economy, accelerating climate change and damaging the health of current and future generations, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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21.04.2013
Reuters
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Norway took a major step towards opening up an environmentally sensitive Arctic area to oil and gas exploration when the ruling Labour Party gave the go-ahead on Sunday for an impact study.
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