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India minister blames climate change deadly heatwave, weak monsoon
2015-06-02 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's earth sciences minister has blamed climate change for a heatwave that has killed 2,500 people and for deficient monsoon rains, after the government said on Tuesday the country was headed for its first drought in six years. "Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon," Harsh Vardhan said. "It's not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change," he said. The minister's...
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UN climate talks "inadequate," says French ecology minister Royal
2015-06-01 19:05:30| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RFI: Ségolne Royal has slammed UN climate talks as painfully "inadequate," in the face of the urgency of climate change. Talks to hammer out a historic deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions, resumed on Monday, ahead of crunch talks in Paris later this year. Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he's confident of striking an early agreement. "UN climate talks are completely inadequate... " It was with these words that France's Ecology minister Ségolne Royal put a damper on a ten-day...
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Poor nations waiting for deal on climate, says French minister
2015-05-29 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Developing countries are waiting to see what rich nations will offer them in global warming talks, the French minister of environment has said, ahead of crunch negotiations to be hosted in Paris later this year. Ségolne Royal, the environment minister and former presidential candidate, will play a leading role in the United Nations conference in December as the French government is working to produce a new Paris protocol that would determine the future of global action on climate change for...
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Finland's new justice minister supportive of death penalty
2015-05-29 01:33:58| Telecom - Topix.net
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy program for the poor to include Internet access. The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy program for the poor to include Internet access.
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Oil lobby group recruited Canadian minister secret strategy meeting
2015-05-28 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An oil industry lobby group successfully recruited a Canadian cabinet minister to deliver a pep talk and dispense strategic planning advice at a closed door meeting in a luxury Rocky Mountains resort, the Guardian has learned. In the 21 October 2014 session, Greg Rickford, the natural resources minister, urged the 40 to 50 assembled executives to work harder to spread the oil industrys message. You are fighting an uphill battle for public confidence, he said. Our messages are not resonating....
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