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Students hopeful in climate change fight
2014-05-17 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Students featured in a recently released documentary film hope it helps spread their message of optimism in fighting climate change. "I hope it shows people not only the consequences of climate change - you don't want to bring people down - but it gives them that spark of hope, too, that one person or a small group of people can make that change in their lives, or in their schools, that will affect plenty of more people, " said Lake Placid High School junior Cody Bary. Bary, LPHS senior Erin...
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Scientists vow to do a better job of portraying climate change
2014-05-17 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pekin Daily Times: Following critical remarks made by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida about the way scientists depicted the effects of human activity on climate change in the latest National Climate Assessment, the authors of the report are vowing to write a more compelling narrative the next time around. We havent heard the senator question the science or the math in the report, so I think if we improve the story arc, possibly bring in a love interest of some sort, and a car chase, and organize the work in three,...
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Inaction on Energy, Climate Change Risks Global Chaos
2014-05-16 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The crisis in Ukraine has provided the West with a stark reminder of an inconvenient fact: Many of Europes liberal democracies are heavily dependent on Russia for their energy supplies. The latest move by Vladimir Putin in his campaign to destabilize the fragile elected government of Ukraine came this week, as he announced that supplies of natural gas to the country would be cut off at the end of May unless Ukraine pays for them in advance. Ukraine owes Russian gas giant Gazprom $3.5 billion,...
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Climate change has found another way to screw the poor
2014-05-16 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Standard & Poor`s (S&P) Ratings Services has found yet another way that fossil fuel burning by rich countries is going to screw over poor ones - by making it harder for them to borrow money. S&P analysts identified climate change as one of two "global mega-trends" that will shape countries` economic risks in the years to come (aging populations is the other trend). In a new report, the analysts said climate change would hurt nations` creditworthiness, with poor countries the worst affected. The...
Climate change will hit nations' creditworthiness -S&P
2014-05-16 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming will pressure sovereign credit ratings throughout this century with poorer, lower-rated countries hardest hit, Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services said in a report. S&P said climate change will be the 21st Centurys second global mega-trend, after aging populations, to put downward pressure on sovereign ratings, which could harm economic growth and government coffers. The report said extreme weather events such as typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 5,000 people in the...
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