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Justin Trudeau Is Bringing Stephen Harper’s Emissions Plan to the Paris Climate Talks
Posted by Vice: Ashley Renders and Hilary Beaumont on November 4th, 2015
Vice: On the eve of his swearing in, Canada's next prime minister already has climate critics on his doorstep.
On Thursday, climate protesters are planning a "climate welcome" outside Canada's prime ministerial residence, 24 Sussex Drive, to remind Justin Trudeau of his commitment to the environment. During the election, Trudeau dazzled Canadians with big talk of bringing the provincial premiers to the Paris climate conference on November 30 and keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius, but...
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Poll Americans Not Too Worried About Global Warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2015
Associated Press: Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming.
Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And that is keeping the American public from demanding and getting the changes that are necessary to prevent global warming from reaching a crisis, according to climate and social scientists.
As top-level international negotiations to try to limit greenhouse...
Urine Samples Show How Eating Organic Can Dramatically Reduce Pesticides in Your Body
Posted by EcoWatch: Cole Mellino on November 4th, 2015
EcoWatch: Research from the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has shown that switching from a conventional diet to an organic one can drastically reduce the presence of pesticides in your body. This video from the institute shows what happens when a family switches to an all-organic diet for two weeks: But new research published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives shows that just eating organic might not be enough to keep pesticides out of our bodies. Civil Eats reported: Researchers...
Why supermarkets’ love of use-by dates leads to food waste
Posted by Guardian: Joanna Blythman on November 4th, 2015
Guardian: Rekindled by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s War on Waste programme, contributions to the seemingly intractable food-waste debate are piling up like an overstuffed compost bin. Environment secretary Liz Truss admitted that she ignores best-before dates; hardly a shocker that, because most people who have a grasp of the keeping properties of food do the same. Such is our creeping disillusionment with supermarkets, many of us are now inclined to trust our intuition as to whether a food can safely be...
West Antarctic coastal snow accumulation rose 30% during 20th century
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 4th, 2015
PhysOrg: Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica's coastal ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The research gives scientists new insight into Antarctica's blanket of ice. Understanding how the ice sheet grows and shrinks over time enhances scientists' understanding of the processes that impact global sea levels, according to the study's authors.
The new study used ice...