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How Anxiety Around Climate Change Blocks Us From Taking Action
2015-12-05 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: While most scientists agree that we haven't yet reached the point of no return on climate change, we're getting alarmingly close. The warnings have been issued, and the message is loud and clear: Our individual and collective inaction may lead to unimaginable consequences. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cautioned that without urgent action on climate change, we face a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally," while Greenpeace estimates...
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Want climate action? Give us cash, India tells rich nations
2015-12-04 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Rich nations responsible for the bulk of the heat-trapping gases mankind has spewed into Earth's atmosphere must provide cash if they want developing countries to make climate-saving cuts, India insisted Friday. Developing countries are hamstrung by a poverty-reduction imperative mixed with the expense of energy from renewable sources like wind and water, Indian official Ajay Mathur told AFP at a UN climate summit in Paris. He touched upon one of the issues most likely to sink the decades-old...
Biggest hurdle climate change action? Partisan divide
2015-12-04 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: As US officials attend the United Nations climate change conference in Paris this week, polls show that a majority of Americans say climate change is a serious problem, but a deep partisan divide remains, potentially complicating US action on the issue. Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated climate change is a serious problem facing the country, down from 69 percent in June, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. But only 47 percent say the federal government should do more...
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2015-12-04 17:48:27| PortlandOnline
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Religious leaders step up pressure for action on climate change
2015-12-04 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two years ago Yeb Sano, the Filipino governments lead climate negotiator, broke down in tears in front of the worlds diplomats in Warsaw as typhoon Haiyan ripped through his home city of Tacloban, killing thousands of people. This week he arrived at the Paris climate talks a changed man. No longer a star diplomat, he came on foot after completing a 58-day, 1,500km pilgrimage from Rome. He is now an official adviser to the archbishop of Manila. The politics of climate change are limiting,...
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