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Scientists hope 2,000-year-old ice holds clues to climate change
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Polar scientists who retrieved ice samples from the Antarctic say they are on the verge of unlocking 2,000 years of climate records offering clues to how global warming will affect our future. An international team traveled to Antarctica's Aurora Basin in a five-week project that began last December, to drill for ice samples needed to bridge a gap in knowledge of temperature changes over the last 20 centuries. Using the latest technology to probe the secrets of the past, the scientists hope...
#fastfortheclimate: Gimmick or powerful climate change campaign?
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When we think of hunger strikes historical figures tend to come to mind: Gandhi, the suffragettes, Irish republican Bobby Sands. But what would it look like if we transplanted this established form of protest into the digital age? The recent fast for the climate campaign may give us a starting point. The campaign has drawn its inspiration from Philippines climate change commissioner Yeb Sano's 13-day hunger strike at the post-Typhoon Haiyan's COP19. This individual protest has grown into an active...
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Gardening for climate change
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: From vicious drought to terrible storms, climate change is affecting people throughout the world. Writer Jim Barilla sees that climate change is being felt in his own urban garden in South Carolina. He tells host Steve Curwood how climate disruption has changed his gardening practice. Transcript CURWOOD: The White House has just released its third National Climate Assessment showing that every region of the country is already affected. Higher temperatures, rising sea-levels, more intense storms...
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Obama hopes to win over voters with renewed focus on climate change
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: President Obama capped a weeklong focus on climate change with a push for greater energy efficiency, a pitch particularly attuned to reaching two groups: big-dollar donors in the green movement and activists once inspired by his 2008 ambition to heal the planet. Both groups will play a role in turning out Democratic voters in November, a crucial factor for the party's hope to retain control of the Senate. But Obama has faced palpable frustration among some supporters who had hoped for more progress...
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Billionaire Tom Steyer carries $100 million sledgehammer into battle over climate change
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Examiner: In politics, it rarely pays to be above the fray. So when a billionaire bent on making his mark comes to your movement with open wallet, you welcome him with open arms. That's how Tom Steyer and the environmental community grew to be fast friends. The former manager of a San Francisco hedge fund has pledged $50 million of his own money, and to raise a matching amount, for November's congressional and state elections through his NextGen Climate Action PAC to address what he calls "the generational...
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