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How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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Obama: Daughter's asthma attack made climate change personal
2015-04-08 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that his push to address climate change has been partly influenced by a frightening moment when his daughter Malia had an asthma attack as a 4-year-old. What I can relate to is the fear a parent has, when your 4-year-old daughter comes up to you and says, Daddy, Im having trouble breathing. The fright you feel is terrible, the president said on ABCs Good Morning America Wednesday. And if we can make sure that our responses to...
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Vertical Gardens Beat Soil Made Salty by Climate Change
2015-01-30 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The soil in Knolkhol village in southwest Bangladesh has become increasingly salty because of incursions of seawater. The situation became particularly acute in the aftermath of Cyclone Aila in 2009, which brought storm surges that broke embankments and flooded farmland. After 2009 vegetable crops planted in the ground there yielded only meager returns--if they didn't fail completely. But for the past three years hundreds of villagers have enjoyed the bounty of so-called vertical gardens--essentially...
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Australia: 'Angry Summer' made worse by climate change: Commission
2013-03-04 01:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The latest report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the weather extremes experienced around the country this summer were made worse by climate change. The report - The Angry Summer - says the extreme heat, floods and bushfires experienced around country were all aggravated by a shifting climate, and it warns the trend is likely to continue. Climate Commission chief Professor Tim Flannery says that while Australia may have always been a land of drought and flooding rains, the...
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