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My pessimism on climate change
2015-12-20 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal-Sentinel: In August 1928, 15 nations signed in Paris the Kellogg-Briand Pact to ban war. Understandable, given the torrents of blood that had filled the First World War's trenches. Among the original signatories were the United States, France, Great Britain -- and Japan and Germany. Within a year, another 30 countries or so had signed on, including the Soviet Union. President Herbert Hoover declared: "I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty for the Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion...
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A new era of climate change co-operation
2015-12-20 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Standard: Seventy years ago, the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II. Seven decades later, in Paris, nations united in the face of another threat the threat to life as we know it due to a rapidly warming planet. Governments have ushered in a new era of global co-operation on climate change one of the most complex issues ever to confront humanity. In doing so, they have significantly advanced efforts to uphold our charter mandate to "save succeeding generations". What was once unthinkable...
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Watch Climate Change Eat This Canadian Island
2015-12-20 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: The waterbound Pacific nation of Kiribati isn't the only island that's being swallowed by the ocean. A new video by National Geographic shows the rising Atlantic eating away at the low-lying Lennox Island, an aboriginal community in Prince Edward Island province thats also threatened by the rising seas. When I first came to live here, we had the children out playing baseball in the front yard, said David Haley, a property manager who lives on the island, in the clip. They cant do that anymore....
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Canada: McKenna wants Canada to work with US, Mexico on climate change
2015-12-20 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: Canada's minister of environment and climate change hopes to work with the United States and Mexico on a "North American strategy" to fight global warming, as part of the landmark deal reached by 195 countries in Paris earlier this month. Catherine McKenna says she's already had "great conversations" with her counterparts from the U.S. and Mexico on joint efforts to address climate change. "It's really important that we align and I think that what's great is that there is momentum with the U.S....
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United Kingdom: Ed Milband aims for cross-party climate change coalition
2015-12-20 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ed Miliband has vowed to build a high-ambition coalition of UK businesses, trade unions and civic society to challenge the governments backward environmental policies. The former Labour leader said the agreement reached at the UN climate talks in Paris earlier this month provided a historic opportunity to tackle climate change. But he warned time was running out. This is the thing my kids will judge me on, Miliband told the Guardian. Did you do something about this? Were you the last...
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