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Australia: Labor leader Bill Shorten visits the Great Barrier Reef which is under threat from climate change
2016-05-30 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: IF YOU are confused about what the major parties are doing about environment policy, youre not the only one. The subject has been bogged down in claims and counterclaims and no where was this more apparent than during a leaders debate on Sunday, and one held at the National Press Club earlier this month between the environment ministers. How do you make sense of it all? Here's our easy guide to understanding what's going on. WHY EVERYONE CARES ABOUT THE 'TARGET' Both Labor and Liberal parties...
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Australia: Climate change action vital to reef
2016-05-30 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Both the Coalition and Labor admit saving the Great Barrier Reef from devastating bleaching will require action on climate change. Their leaders turned their campaign focus to protecting the environmental icon on Monday, with Labor pledging $377 million in new funding for research and management. The coalition promised $6 million for another boat to cull crown of thorns starfish. Labor's cash injection will go to improving water quality, streamlining management and science, including a $50 million...
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Naomi Klein says Alberta wildfires linked to climate change in Calgary address
2016-05-30 05:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Refusing to link climate change to the Fort McMurray wildfires puts Albertans at odds with the scientific consensus and it's a barrier to a meaningful conversation on how to move forward, an award-winning journalist told hundreds at the Congress 2016 of the Humanities and Social Sciences on Sunday. Naomi Klein, a best-selling author, social activist and filmmaker addressed themes from her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, in Calgary, the heart of the oil and...
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Expert urges voluntary family planning mitigate climate change
2016-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: With climate change already close to an irreversible tipping point, urgent action is needed to reduce not only our mean (carbon) footprints but also the "number of feet" -- that is, the growing population either already creating large footprints or aspiring to do so, argues a leading physician and environmentalist in The BMJ. Yet John Guillebaud, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University College London, says most climate change discussions focus only on technology...
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Activist Naomi Klein links Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change at University of Calgary speech
2016-05-30 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Sun: Activist Naomi Klein ruffled some feathers in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Sunday, linking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels. Speaking at Congress 2016, which is being held at the University of Calgary, Klein said last year's Paris climate change agreement didn't go far enough. "It is a breakthrough and, if it's all we do, it will be an ecological disaster,' she told the crowd of almost 500 people. "If we are serious about...
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