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Flood victim confronts Cruz on climate change
2016-02-08 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denton Record Chronicle: Renee Boschert wanted an audience with Ted Cruz, and she traveled all the way from Texas to New Hampshire to get it. The 63-year-old from Wimberley, in Central Texas about 260 miles south of Denton, arrived in the Granite State on Tuesday and returned home Saturday, filling the time in between by attending town hall meetings with the U.S. senator from Texas, as well as those of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, two of Cruzs rivals for the GOP presidential nomination....
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Moneyed interests are blocking US action on climate change
2016-02-08 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Global warming is an increasingly pressing crisis. While the recent international climate accords in Paris are an important step forward, the power of wealthy interests in the United States still hampers progress. In her new book, Dark Money, journalist Jane Mayer traces how the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and their right-wing allies have funded an elaborate climate change denial operation that has successfully derailed climate legislation. The denial apparatus Donors in the...
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Mainstreaming climate change activities into development planning in developing countries
2016-02-08 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NewsDay: UNCHECKED climate change impacts are likely going to derail planned development outcomes in many developing countries, thereby, posing negative challenges for the resilience of many livelihoods together with the underlying eco-systems. Time for climate change adaptations and mitigation that does not have space for resilience amounts to null initiatives and planning own-goals. Planning, not just planning in general, but development-oriented planning, play vital roles in addressing human institutional...
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Pentagon orders commanders to prioritize climate change in all military actions
2016-02-08 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Times: The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war planning to joint exercises with allies. A new directive`s theme: The U.S. Armed Forces must show "resilience" and beat back the threat based on "actionable science." It says the military will not be able to maintain effectiveness unless the directive is followed. It orders the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy -- a wide array of "climate...
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Knowledge platform on climate change
2016-02-08 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Kerala is preparing to log on to the global information network to build resilience to climate change. The government has initiated efforts to create a knowledge portal on climate change and establish a mobile laboratory and automatic weather stations for long-term monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and other climate indicators in Kerala. The five-year project will be taken up by the Institute of Climate Change Studies (ICCS) in Kottayam, under the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for...
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