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Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy 2016, say experts
2016-01-14 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on 20-23 January showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns. A failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was seen as likely to have a bigger impact than the spread of weapons...
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SOTU: Family Farmers Are Thankful for the Presidents Focus on Climate Change
2016-01-13 04:18:27| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (January 12, 2016) President Obamas decision to address climate change tonight during his last State of the Union address will help focus the nation on a critical issue that farmers and ranchers have been dealing with for years, said National Farmers Union (NFU)
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Obama Disses Climate Change Deniers
2016-01-13 04:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffinton Post: President Barack Obama dissed those who deny the science around climate change during his last State of the Union address. "Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it," Obama said. "You'll be pretty lonely, because you'll be debating our military, most of America's business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it's a problem and intend to solve it." Obama touched...
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Trees: Helping Cities Solve Climate Change
2016-01-12 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Quick, name a climate solution for cities which helps lower carbon emissions, protects vulnerable people who live there, and even helps students get better grades. Give up? The answer is urban forests and you're not alone if you didn't come up with the answer. After all, most of us see the trees woven into our city streets and parks as just a pretty, cinematic backdrop for urban life. Nice to look at, certainly, but not profoundly important when compared to better mass transit and other steps cities...
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Peter Singer on the COP21 Agreement & Ethics of Climate Change
2016-01-12 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Good Magazine: Peter Singer is arguably one of the worlds best-known modern philosophers. Singer has been based out of Princeton University since 1999 and has a host of awards and honors to his name. Hes perhaps best known for his seminal 1975 tome Animal Liberation, which all but coined that term (hed used it earlier in 1973) and helped to launch the movement around it. Arguing that there was no real value or significance in the distinction between species and rejecting the need for reciprocal social contracts...
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