Archive for June 28th, 2015

Brazil, China, India, South Africa in push for climate financing

Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 28th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: Brazil, China, India and South Africa voiced disappointment Sunday over the failure of rich countries to come up with billions of dollars needed to help them sign on to a landmark climate change deal. Ministers and top negotiators from the four key countries met in New York to close ranks as talks on the climate deal head into crucial months before a Paris conference in December. In a joint statement, they expressed "disappointment over the continued lack of any clear roadmap for developed...
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Pope Francis’s environmental message brings thousands on to streets in Rome

Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 28th, 2015
Guardian: Thousands of campaigners and religious leaders have marched through Rome, backing Pope Francis’s uncompromising environmental message ahead of a Vatican conference on climate change, and urging world leaders to take action. Holy See officials will this week discuss the environment with activists and scientists at a meeting at which Naomi Klein, a prominent social activist, will take centre stage alongside Cardinal Peter Turkson, one of the pontiff’s most senior aides. Soon after the release...
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Scientists Baffled Over Unprecedented Warming Ocean Off Atlantic and Pacific Coasts

Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 28th, 2015
EcoWatch: Oceanographers are puzzled by an accelerated burst of warming sea that threatens the fisheries of the American Atlantic coast. Meanwhile, off the U.S. West coast, scientists report that they have been baffled by a mysterious “blob” of water up to 4°C warmer than the surrounding Pacific, linked to weird weather across the entire country. Jacob Forsyth and research colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts report in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans...
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