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Pacific religious leaders called on to confront climate change
2013-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: Religious leaders in the Pacific have been told they aren't doing enough to fight climate change. In Fiji religious leaders have gathered for a summit and the region's leading scientists were also there to make presentations. Taholo Kami is the Regional Director for the Oceania Program of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. He says he told the summit that religious leaders in the region focus too much on the after-life, and not enough on the state of the planet here and...
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Teacher sues after district makes her remove religious items from classrooms
2013-01-15 23:39:00| American School & University
Teacher sues after district makes her remove religious items from classrooms Cheektowaga (N.Y.) Central School District is accused of violating employee's freedom of speech
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Could Obamas Best Climate Change Strategy Be Thwarted by Religious Fundamentalism?
2013-01-13 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PoliticusUSA: When do "alarmists" become thought leaders? Is it when their numbers reach a critical mass? It is when the threat they identify becomes so obvious to enough people, it becomes impossible to deny? Is it when long-time climate change deniers, funded by fossil fuel overlords, publicly admit that not only is the science showing the planet is warming up. More importantly that it is human behavior causing it? The crop killing drought last year withrecord breaking heatandfreakish storms, marked one of those...
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