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Tuvalu PM Enele Sopoaga says climate change 'like a weapon of mass destruction.'
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Prime Minister of the small Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has compared climate change to a weapon of mass destruction, and warned Australia not to stand in the way of a new global agreement. Enele Sopoaga says his country and many other low-lying Pacific nations are facing serious threats from global warming. Mr Sopoaga says he'll be making his position clear when he co-chairs a UN climate change summit in New York next month. "We are caught in the middle, and certainly in Tuvalu, we are...
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Tuvalu PM says climate change 'like weapon of mass destruction'
2014-08-15 07:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga likened the impact of climate change on Pacific island nations to "a weapon of mass destruction" Friday, saying strong global leadership on the issue was needed. File photo taken in February 2004 shows the South Pacific pounding the coastline of Tuvalu's Funafuti Atoll as king tides caused by climate change threaten the tiny island nation - by Torsten Blackwood Sopoaga said a UN-sponsored summit on climate change in New York next month was a chance to set...
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The 95% Doctrine: Climate Change as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
2014-05-22 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The fossil fuel industry is waging a war on the planet's ecosystem and her people. It's not only unnecessary and obscene, but should be considered a crime. (Image: public domain)Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of "information' from top figures in the Bush administration about the secret Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and so endanger the United States. And who -- other than a few suckers -- could have doubted that Saddam Hussein...
Floods affect over 1 million in Balkans, destruction 'terrifying.'
2014-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bosnia said on Monday that more than a quarter of its 4 million people had been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory, comparing the "terrifying" destruction to that of the country's 1992-95 war. The extent of the devastation became apparent in Serbia too, as waters receded in some of the worst-hit areas to reveal homes toppled or submerged in mud, trees felled and villages strewn with the rotting corpses of livestock. The regional death toll reached more than 40,...
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Stop financing destruction of our mountains, our water and my community
2014-05-14 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: Last week, Rainforest Action Network and three allies testified at Bank of America`s annual shareholder meeting, urging them to drop coal, to stop profiting from environmental destruction and human rights abuses. In the next two weeks, we`ll be posting the statements of our three allies. Add your voice by telling Bank of America to stop funding coal - and come clean on climate change. My name is Elise Keaton. I am the Executive Director of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation and I am from southern...
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