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Washington state enduring record wildfire season, official says

2014-09-11 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The wildfire season in Washington state has been one of the most destructive on record, charring 550 square miles of wilderness and destroying hundreds of homes and structures, the state Department of Natural Resources said on Thursday. The assessment came as Washington Governor Jay Inslee renewed a request for the federal government to offer assistance to more than 300 people who lost their homes during July's record-setting Carlton Complex blaze near the Cascade Mountains. Washington has...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns State Capitol Unveil Official Portrait

2014-09-09 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

California Report: Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a visit to Sacramento Monday to unveil a portrait of himself. The portrait is a 6-foot painting he paid for himself. Gov. Jerry Brown praised Schwarzenegger's independence in bucking party politics by helping craft the state?s 2005 landmark climate change law. Schwarzenegger in turn praised Brown's vision in the 1970s as helping spark the state's focus on environmental protection. - See more at: http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201409090850/b?category=politics#sthash.ILkU9b0c.dpuf...

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UN official: New York climate summit a 'major turning point'

2014-09-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: The United Nations climate summit in New York is expected to be a "major turning point" for negotiations on an international pact to address global warming, according to officials organizing the event. Selwin Hart, director of the U.N. climate team under Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, said on call with reporters Monday that the summit "will be a major turning point in the way the world is approaching climate change," and is meant to put the issue "back on top of the international agenda." Over...

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