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I am a conservationist: Tony Abbott says no friction w/ Obama on climate change action
2014-06-14 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with US President Barack Obama on the subject of climate change. Speaking after his meeting with Mr Obama in Washington, Mr Abbott played down any differences between the two leaders, saying that both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is a conservationist and there is no disagreement between himself and Obama on climate change. Photo:...
Australia: 'Conservationist' Abbott links himself with Obama on climate change
2014-06-14 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with President Barack Obama on climate change. In an interview with Fairfax Media in Washington, Mr Abbott said any divisions between Australia and the US over climate policy were overblown, insisting both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Mr Obama is understood to have told Mr Abbott that while his administration wanted more co-ordinated international action on global...
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Obama renews climate change push
2014-06-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama renewed his campaign to curb carbon emissions Saturday, saying the debate over climate change is over. Obama, who made the battle against climate change a core promise of his 2008 election campaign, has been stymied at the federal level by opposition from lawmakers. Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence," Obama told a crowd of more than 30,641 people, including thousands of graduates at the University of California,...
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Cities must prepare for climate change or get sued
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: While Congress is still mired in climate-change denial, insurance companies have no doubt about climate change. For them, the only question is: Who pays for its effects? The answer to that question is increasingly obvious: We all will. Farmers Insurance filed nine class-action suits in April against dozens of cities in the Chicago area for failing to prepare for the floods that left some neighborhoods navigable only by rowboat last year. Last Tuesday, the company withdrew the lawsuits, suggesting...
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Alberta revising climate change plan, no changes in works emissions
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Herald: Environment Minister Robin Campbell says Alberta is busy revising its 2008 climate change plan, but the province won't alter its old targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The province has previously acknowledged its current strategy will fall short of cutting emissions by 50 megatonnes by 2020, triggering promises two years ago that Alberta would revamp its plan. In an interview this week, Campbell said the new strategy won't be a complete revision of the 2008 blueprint introduced by former...
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