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Where 2016 GOP contenders stand on climate change
2014-05-12 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Yesterday, Florida senator Marco Rubio all but announced that hell be running for president in 2016. In the process, he offered some vigorous climate denialism that should please the Republican primary electorate: Our climate is always changing, he said, noting that human activity has nothing to do with it and that any efforts to do something about it will destroy our economy. So this is a good time to recap what the other potential GOP presidential contenders has said about climate in the...
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Administration Climate Change Report Calls for Action
2014-05-12 19:39:00| National Hog Farmer
The Obama administration released an updated climate change report, the National Climate Assessment, that detailed the consequences of climate change if action is not taken. The report looked at the impact climate change was having in a number of areas including agriculture, health, infrastructure, water supply and the increase in severe weather events such as floods and droughts. read more
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Worlds first climate change refugee has appeal rejected
2014-05-12 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Ioane Teitiota, from the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati, had hoped to become the worlds first climate change refugee. His low-lying homeland is likely to be engulfed by waves by the end of this century and to become uninhabitable long before then. But the Court of Appeal in New Zealand, where Mr Teitioa, 37, has been living since 2007, took an old-fashioned view of what constitutes a refugee. In a ruling yesterday, it called his case fundamentally misconceived, and an attempt to...
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Stopping Climate Change 'Almost Impossible' If China Can't Quit Coal, Report Says
2014-05-12 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: If China doesn`t begin to limit its coal consumption by 2030, it will be "almost impossible" for the world avoid a situation where global warming stays below 2°C, a new study released Monday found. The study, led by the U.K.`s Center for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, recommends China put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions from coal by 2020, and then swiftly reduce its dependency on the fossil fuel. The reductions would...
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Marco Rubio's climate change remarks fly in the face of facts
2014-05-12 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week, senator Marco Rubio, by many counts a rising star in conservative political circles in the US, answered simple questions put to him on climate change. His comments are particularly striking in that they follow a major report put out by the US administration and respected scientists on the observations we are already making of climate change. That report, the National Climate Assessment, points to increases in floods, more severe droughts, heavier precipitation, rising sea levels, and...
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