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Cancelled climate march in Paris leads to shoe protest
2015-11-29 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Empty shoes were lined up in downtown Paris, France, ahead of the start of international climate negotiations Sunday, filling in for global warming protesters who were not permitted to march because of security after this month's attacks. Instead environmental advocacy groups held marches outside of Paris and around the world. A nearly empty conference center seemed to have more security guards than negotiators as country delegations and media started dribbling into the venue where two weeks of...
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Police use tear gas after climate activists throw objects in Paris demonstration
2015-11-29 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Police fired tear gas at protesters who hurled projectiles at them in Paris as a largely peaceful human chain of several thousand formed nearby to urge action on global warming ahead of the global environment summit. A small group, some masked, took part in the violence, with some of them chanting: "State of emergency, police state, you will not deprive us of our right to demonstrate." One young man who gave his name as Ricard shouted "shame on the Republic" at police in the square. He told...
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What the Paris climate meeting must do
2015-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In 1992, more than 150 nations agreed at a meeting in Rio de Janeiro to take steps to stabilize greenhouse gases at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system United Nations-speak for global warming. Many follow-up meetings have been held since then, with little to show for them. Emissions of greenhouse gases have steadily risen, as have atmospheric temperatures, while the consequences of unchecked warming persistent droughts, melting glaciers and...
Bill McKibben: What Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth
2015-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Starting Monday, diplomats and scientists, activists and heads of state at the 2015 U.N. climate change conference in Paris will scramble to reach the first truly global agreement on the greatest problem the planet has ever faced. It will make for compelling headlines, but it's not the real story. Because that already happened. Think back to Copenhagen in 2009 and the last of the great U.N. climate gatherings. There too the world watched expectantly, only to see negotiations break down. No firm...
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Paris climate protesters banned but 10,000 shoes remain video
2015-11-29 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Over 10,000 pairs of shoes on the Place de la Republique replace marchers who were set to take part in a climate cancelled protest as activists take to the streets around the globe. The Paris march was expected to bring 200,000 people onto the citys streets but was forbidden by French authorities in light of security concerns. Elsewhere, thousands marched in Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney ahead of the Paris climate summit on Monday
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