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Tuvalu PM Enele Sopoaga says climate change 'like a weapon of mass destruction.'
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Prime Minister of the small Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has compared climate change to a weapon of mass destruction, and warned Australia not to stand in the way of a new global agreement. Enele Sopoaga says his country and many other low-lying Pacific nations are facing serious threats from global warming. Mr Sopoaga says he'll be making his position clear when he co-chairs a UN climate change summit in New York next month. "We are caught in the middle, and certainly in Tuvalu, we are...
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Is climate change key to the spread of Ebola?
2014-08-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Ebola outbreaks may become more frequent because of climate change, scientists have warned, as the deadly disease ravages four countries across West Africa. Nearly 2,000 people have caught Ebola since the epidemic started in February. More than 1,000 people have died. All four countries hit--Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria--have declared public health emergencies, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has termed the outbreak "unprecedented". Scientists are uncertain why...
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Corporate Australia in denial over climate change, former coal exec Ian Dunlop says
2014-08-15 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Corporate Australia is in complete denial about climate change, according to former fossil fuels executive and energy commentator Ian Dunlop. Mr Dunlop, a former chairman of the Coal Association, said business should be condemning the chairman of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council (BAC), Maurice Newman, for claiming the Earth is cooling. A newspaper article by Mr Newman said that governments, including the former Labor government, followed biased research "like primitive civilisations...
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Tuvalu PM says climate change 'like weapon of mass destruction'
2014-08-15 07:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga likened the impact of climate change on Pacific island nations to "a weapon of mass destruction" Friday, saying strong global leadership on the issue was needed. File photo taken in February 2004 shows the South Pacific pounding the coastline of Tuvalu's Funafuti Atoll as king tides caused by climate change threaten the tiny island nation - by Torsten Blackwood Sopoaga said a UN-sponsored summit on climate change in New York next month was a chance to set...
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Trees lose out to climate change
2014-08-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: Pollution and human encroachment may be a great threat elsewhere, but forests are suffering more from wind, bark beetles and wildfire. Europe's forests are very much protected these days, but climate change has been defeating the object of trying to maintain the vestiges of the great Eurasian forest that once covered the land. To check up on forestry worldwide, look at - The Earth Times Encyclopaedia. Studying the last decade, Rupert Seidii, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Werner Rammer and Pieter Johannes...
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