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Aussie leader seeks to counter Obama on climate change
2014-06-09 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama's meeting with the prime minister of Australia on Thursday may get a little chilly when it comes to the subject of climate change. Australian media is reporting that Prime Minister Tony Abbott is seeking an alliance of countries to counter proposed restrictions on carbon emissions, including price regulations. Just last week, the Obama administration announced new rules to restrict carbon emissions. Obama and Abbott meet Thursday at the White House. Reports The Sydney...
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Fighting climate change with taxpayer dollars isn't a fight against freedom
2014-06-09 13:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Conservatives like to project themselves as lovers of the free market. They believe that everyone should go out and fend for themselves, that the government shouldn't be getting in the way of those with talent and ambition and that it shouldn't be wasting "their" tax dollars on people who are too lazy to get off their rears and earn their keep. That story has a certain simplistic appeal and apparent logical consistency. Unfortunately it also has almost nothing to do with the reality of where conservatives...
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Texas Environmental Leaders Applaud Landmark Climate Change Initiative
2014-06-09 11:14:37| pollutiononline Home Page
The Obama administration today announced its landmark climate change initiative – the first-ever protection against carbon emissions from existing power plants
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Military Bases Brace for Slow-Motion War With Climate Change
2014-06-09 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Military bases across the country have a new enemy to brace against: climate change. Naval Station Norfolk, located in Virginia near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, has long been known as the worlds largest naval complex. But more recently it has become the poster child for a relatively new risk facing the U.S. military: how to protect bases around the country from rising seas, more severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other impacts tied to a shifting climate. That realization, Pentagon spokesman...
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Obama 'Absolutely' Wants To Go Off On Climate Change Deniers In Congress
2014-06-09 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: President Barack Obama is standing firm behind climate researchers warning against the continued burning of fossil fuels, saying, "science is science." Obama said there's "no doubt" the planet will see a rise in average temperature if we burn through all of the fossil fuels currently in the ground. His comments came in an interview that will air Monday as part of the final episode of Showtime's "Years of Living Dangerously." "Over the course of the next several decades, were going to have...
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