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New Friends Of Science Billboard Stirs Climate Change Controversy And Challenges Greenpeace And Pembina Institute Claims On Global Warming
2014-06-30 10:09:17| pollutiononline Home Page
After amedia firestormover their first billboard that said "The sun is the main driver of climate change. Not you. Not CO2.," Friends of Science Society ofCalgaryhaveposted a new messageon digital billboards inAlbertaproclaiming "Global Warming Stopped Naturally 16+ Years Ago'
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Ian Somerhalder Challenges Climate Change's Biggest Cynic
2014-05-01 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TV Guide: The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder knows a thing or two about empowering people to make a change in the world. Through the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which he started in 2010, the actor aims to educate and collaborate with individuals and projects to positively impact the planet and its creatures. But it was working on Showtime's docu-series Years of Living Dangerously that he realized the amount of high-profile and very educated people actually in opposition to the very message he...
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Climate change posing infrastructure challenges
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Star: The Department of Transportation and Works are closely monitoring areas of concern with respect to flooding throughout western Newfoundland. With another rain warning issued for the region Tuesday, Minister Nick McGrath said the areas which flooded or were damaged this past weekend are of particular worry. Highway infrastructure along the south shore of the Bay of Islands eroded with the rainfall and washouts this past weekend. In McIvers on the north shore, a blockage under a bridge caused...
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Climate policy's twin challenges
2013-08-15 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change presents two distinct problems. The first is linear: A little more warming causes a little more damage. The second is nonlinear: A little more warming pushes some part of the climate system past a tipping point and the damage becomes catastrophic. We need smart climate policies that address both problems, so we can slow incremental damage while also taking out an insurance policy against the growing risk of catastrophic damage. The Arctic is a prime example of a potential tipping...
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Kiribati facing challenges in educating on climate change and disasters
2013-07-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand International: The Kiribati education ministry says there are many problems obstructing climate change and disaster education. A curriculum development officer Teeta Kabiriera says there are no experts to work with curriculum writers so that resources can be developed on climate change information. He also says teachers are lacking and arent equipped to teach these topics. Mr Kabiriera says there is a development plan but the curriculum at the teachers college should be improved. He told the joint climate...
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