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Support for world-leading action on climate change skyrockets
2016-09-25 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Public support for world-leading, federal government-level action on climate change has bounced back, according to a new poll, as people perceive environmental impacts around them and support a larger role for renewable energy production. According to the Climate Institute's Climate of the Nation poll, 65 per cent of Australians want their country to lead the world on finding solutions, a significant increase since the time of divisive debates about the Gillard government's carbon tax. The...
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We have to inhabit other planets: Gary Johnson offers libertarian solution to climate change
2016-09-25 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rawstory: Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson suggested on Sunday that climate change could not be stopped and that the solution was for the human race to "inhabit other planets." During an interview on ABC`s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos reminded Johnson that he had warned in 2011 that global warming was "in our future" because the sun would eventually "grow and encompass the Earth." "Does that mean we don`t do anything about it now?" Stephanopoulos wondered. "No, come on,"...
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India to sign Paris accord: What would Gandhi say about climate change?
2016-09-25 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On Sunday, the Paris climate accord inched ever-closer to fruition with Indias support. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will ratify the agreement on Oct. 2 Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. The deal, which must be ratified by 55 UN member nations accounting for 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions before going into effect, has been hailed as a turning point in international climate change policy. At last count, some 60 countries representing 48 percent of emissions had...
Small Grains the Answer to Drought, Climate Change
2016-09-25 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Standard: Munacho Nyamayedenga (61) says he has never been formally employed but still managed to look after his family through subsistence farming in the rocky and arid region of Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP). Nyamayedenga says he has managed to see all his six children through school from agriculture, but laments that last year's El Nio-induced drought and "soil tiredness" brought new challenges that have left most people in the community in need of food aid. With the country faced with a La Nina phenomenon...
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India to ratify Paris Agreement on climate change on October 2, says PM Narendra Modi
2016-09-25 08:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: India will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change+ on October 2 - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The country's move will bring this global deal to fight the menace of global warming+ closer to enter into force later this year. The big announcement was made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his speech at the BJP party council meet+ in Kozhikode on Sunday. India had, in fact, announced its 'climate action plan' (to fight the challenges of climate change) on October 2...
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