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Tony Abbott prepares for Barack Obama meeting saying climate change 'not most important issue'
2014-06-12 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: This time tomorrow, Tony Abbott will be preparing for his Oval Office meeting with President Obama and the gulf between the two leaders on climate change has never been wider. On his way to Washington, Tony Abbott announced an alliance with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push back against using carbon trading schemes to tackle climate change, while President Obama at the same time was calling climate change perhaps the most significant long-term challenge facing...
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Of Brazil, the World Cup and Climate Change
2014-06-11 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: When the Brazil and Croatia national sides kick off the World Cup on Thursday, the players on the field won't be the only new things since the last time Brazil hosted the World Cup in 1950. Cleats, the stadiums and even the humble soccer ball itself have changed. But even more important than soccer equipment, average temperatures in Brazil for June and July, when the tournament is played, have also changed. And that change has trended upward, just as it has worldwide. June-July average temperatures...
Climate Change Is Cooking Up a New Permafrost in Alaska
2014-06-11 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Study finds a new permafrost is now in the making in Alaska Except for people who live in smack in the middle of nowhere and folks who choose to remain oblivious to what is happening to the world around them, pretty much everybody knows that climate change is reshaping our planet's ecosystems. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists with McGill University and the United States Geological Survey explain that this man-made phenomenon is now cooking up a new permafrost in...
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Senior Democrat hopes Australia doesn't turn back on climate change 'leadership'
2014-06-11 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: Democrat Congressman Henry Waxman has been one of the biggest players in US climate policy for decades. He steered landmark clean air bills through Congress and in 2009 almost secured a national emissions trading scheme for the US, a bill that was narrowly defeated by House Republicans. His home state of California, the eighth largest economy in the world, has had its own emissions trading scheme in operation for 12 months. He's also famous for securing the testimony...
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The 'King of Coal' Threatens to Sue EPA For Lying About Climate Change
2014-06-11 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: The largest independent producer of coal in the U.S. insists that climate change is a lie, and he's threatening to sue the Environmental Protection Agency to make it shut up. Robert Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, says that the EPAs assertion that climate change exists violates the U.S. Data Quality Act, which requires government agencies to use only objective informational input to form its opinions. Murray asserts that the EPAs new regulations on carbon emissions from existing coal plants...
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