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New report reveals human rights abuses by corps, govts in the Amazon
2014-05-14 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Regnskogfondet (the Rainforest Foundation of Norway) recently released a 52-page report entitled Human Rights and Resource Conflicts in the Amazon. The report took over six months to complete and gives an in-depth account of the conflicts activists and indigenous peoples (IPs) are having with corporations and governmental agencies. It relays a situation that does not look good. The report details everything from physical attacks to systematic pressure by corporations and governments. According...
Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate"
2014-05-13 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PolitiFact: Scientists have been issuing more new reports on the irreversible effects of climate change in recent weeks. Two groups reported on May 12, 2014, that the global sea level will rise at least 10 feet, accelerating to a dangerous pace after the next century. Just a day before those reports were released, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sat down with ABC's Jonathan Karl on This Week. Talk turned to climate change, where the possible Republican presidential candidate denied a link between humans and the...
Marco Rubio says human activity isn't causing climate change
2014-05-11 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A National Climate Assessment released by the White House last week found that Rubio`s home state of Florida is one of the most vulnerable to rising sea levels and changes in temperatures and storm patterns. President Obama has proposed several new regulatory programs to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which most scientists say are the chief cause of a warming global climate. Rubio said he doesn`t agree that actions humans take today could affect how the climate is changing. "Our climate...
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Rubio: Human Activity Isnt Causing Climate Change
2014-05-11 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Marco Rubio isn't buying it. Even though the White House said last week that climate change is a reality, and the Pentagon has acknowledged it is working on preparing for the effects of a warmer planet, the Republican senator from Florida says he isn't really worried. "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,' Rubio told ABC News. He added that there's really nothing that can be done to push back against a...
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Rising CO2 levels threaten human nutrition, study says
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: When carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches levels anticipated for the middle of this century, some staple crops that many of the worlds poorest people depend upon for sustenance will become less nutritious, new research suggests. In a study led by the Harvard University School of Public Health and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists found that iron and zinc concentrations were substantially reduced in wheat, rice, soybean and pea crops when they were...
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