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November 11, 2013 by IGSD Montreal Protocol Success Slowed Global Warming

Scientists using sophisticated statistical methods show in a paper in Nature Geoscience that the successful phase out of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, by the Montreal Protocol slowed climate change…

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November 11, 2013
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September 26, 2013 by IGSD 95% Likelihood Climate Change Is Manmade Says IPCC

On Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to release the first of four volumes of its fifth comprehensive assessment of scientific knowledge on climate change, known as AR5.

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September 26, 2013
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September 5, 2013 by IGSD Obama gains allies for de-funding coal plants, expanding cuts in short-lived pollutants

During his visit to Sweden yesterday, President Obama gained allies in his effort to stop coal plants when the leaders of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden agreed to join the U.S. “in ending public financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas, except in rare circumstances.”

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September 5, 2013
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September 3, 2013 by IGSD Montreal Protocol Endorsed for Fast Climate Mitigation

Efforts to phase down the super greenhouse gas called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, received a boost today when the Climate & Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants agreed to “to work toward a phasedown in the production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.”

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September 3, 2013