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California revs up for Paris climate change summit
2015-11-04 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the wonky world of climate change, Californias presence at the United Nations summit in Paris next month is expected to be a star-studded affair. There will be an actual movie star, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who jump-started some of the states most ambitious efforts to slow global warming. Also in the mix is Tom Steyer, the billionaire Bay Area environmental activist who has bankrolled political campaigns around the country. And there is the official state delegation led by Gov....
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Australian companies sign on for climate change action ahead of Paris conference
2015-11-04 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Twelve Australian companies including energy suppliers, banks and a major telecommunications business have committed to climate change action at a summit ahead of the UN's climate change conference in Paris at the end of November. The Australian Climate Leadership Summit is backed by the French government and focuses on seven key climate commitments by action group We Mean Business, including carbon emission reduction targets, carbon pricing, renewable sources and climate policy. The conference...
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40 percent in US believe climate change is real, are unworried
2015-11-04 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Monitor: Americans agree that climate change is real and caused by humans, but they arent that worried, says a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In the October survey, 65 percent of those surveyed said Yes global warming is happening, and 51 percent said that climate change is caused entirely or mostly by human activities. However, only 23 percent were Extremely or very worried about global warming, and the highest percent of those polled 38 percent were...
Hillary Clinton: Climate change has contributed to refugee crises, including Syria
2015-11-04 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Hillary Clinton said climate change is a contributing factor to refugee crises Civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS have led to a mass exodus from the Arab nation Climate change is a contributing factor in the world's most dire refugee crises, including the one in Syria, Hillary Clinton said in Iowa Tuesday. Clinton was asked at a town hall in Coralville about what the United States can do about refugee crises in Syria and Africa. After a long answer on Syria, including calling for a international...
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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
2015-11-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT`S been called the cradle of humanity, but the significance of East Africa`s Turkana basin in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region`s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared. Turkana, part of the Great Rift Valley straddling Kenya and Ethiopia, has been a hallowed site for the study of human evolution ever since Maeve and Richard Leakey began uncovering fossils there in the 1960s. Ranging from Australopithecus to our own...
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