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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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The researchers used predictive population models coupled with advanced mapping techniques to estimate the climate damage wild pigs are causing across five continents. Since soil contains nearly three times as much carbon than in the atmosphere, even a small fraction of carbon emitted from soil has the potential to accelerate climate change.

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Poll Shows Decline in UK Public Conviction About Climate Change

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A new poll by Ipsos Mori has found that the proportion of adults in the UK who believe that climate change is “definitely” a reality dropped by more than 30% over the last year, from 44% to 31%. The BBC poll found that 25% of people thought climate change was not happening, compared with 15% in November last year.

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Government of Canada releases framework for ending fossil fuel subsidies

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definition of subsidies as a reference. The Guidelines can be updated at any point to better reflect new policy developments and enable increased stringency and may be formally reviewed periodically. Canada’s Assessment Framework uses the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (PDF) Article 1.1

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BREAKING NEWS: US Science Report Proves All Out Effort To Fight Climate Change Needed Right Now Or Everyone Is Screwed. Get It?

Creative Greenius

Here’s the way the rest of the legacy media reported this story yesterday with links to their none-too-urgent coverage – courtesy of my FaceBook friends: White House Report Warns of Climate Change Effects – CNN. Climate Report Details Energy, Agriculture Harm – Reuters India.

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Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

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Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. To assess the impact of obesity on the environment, researchers used the standard definitions of obesity (body mass index of greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2 ) and normal weight (body mass index of less than 25).

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MIT team reexamines rates of Li-ion cost decline

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Understanding this potential can inform critical climate change mitigation strategies, including public policies and technology development efforts. When energy density is incorporated into the definition of service provided by a lithium-ion battery, estimated technological improvement rates increase considerably.

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

Baua Electric

And state Senator Jay Collins (R-Tampa) had this to say about the impending wind turbine ban: I think there are many causes [to climate change] and I think our weather patterns are cyclic. … This has been extensively debunked – it’s ships and climate change caused by fossil fuels that kill whales. Absolutely.

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