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New Zealand: Govt's climate change efforts slammed
2014-05-02 00:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3News: Political leaders are being urged to take climate change seriously, with a new report slamming the Government's lack of action. Generation Zero yesterday released a 40-page report, A Challenge to Our Leaders: Why New Zealand Needs a Clean Energy Plan, bringing together studies and analysis on climate change and fossil fuel dependence. In it, the group concludes the current Government has "hollowed out or removed" policies aimed at reducing New Zealand's dependence on oil and coal, and has allowed...
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Longtime Vegas water czar warns other cities to brace for climate change
2014-05-01 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Patricia Mulroy has been called "the water empress of Vegas. For 25 years, she lead the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency responsible for keeping the taps running in a desert metropolis that was growing like the fat guy in the Monty Python skit. As I wrote yesterday, she was a force to be reckoned with. Today, Mulroy`s name evokes a mixture of hatred and admiration among her fellow western water managers, environmentalists, and rural residents who have long opposed her proposal to import...
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Service Level Update: Change to Application of Demolition Delay Exception
2014-05-01 19:14:51| PortlandOnline
Effective April 22, 2014, the Bureau of Development Services is applying the Demolition Delay Provisions of the Citys Building Regulations, Title 24.55.200, to proposals where the application for the demolition of a single family residence is accompanied by an application to replace it with something other than a single family residence.
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New study: Cattle won't fix landscapes or climate change
2014-05-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KCET: In the wake of the recent controversy in Nevada over rancher Cliven Bundy's illegal grazing of at least 900 cattle on a fragile swath of the Mojave desert, supporters of the rancher have pointed to claims that stocking cattle on desert lands can actually improve the desert and help mitigate the effects of global warming. The hypothesis that cattle can improve desert lands, referred to by its supporters as "Holistic Management," has long been criticized by wildlife biologists, along with its chief...
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Congress Should Listen to Stephen Hawking, Not Ted Cruz, on Climate Change
2014-05-01 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: According to the Pew Research Center, just 14 percent of Republicans view global warming as a top priority. In addition, only 24 percent of Republicans view human activity as the cause for global warming. As for the views of certain GOP leaders, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made the following quip during a freezing winter: Its cold. Al Gore told me this wouldnt happen. Echoing Cruz, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) wondered why Senate Democrats spent all night discussing climate change during the cold spell...
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