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Australia's new Prime Minister actually understands climate change
2015-09-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Malcolm Turnbull has replaced climate change doubter and coal industry booster Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister This means that one of the world's least enthusiastic backers of a new climate treaty has just been removed from the global stage -- less than three months before a crucial round of climate talks. While vowing to retain the party's policies on climate and other matters for now, Turnbull holds views more aligned with mainstream science than his predecessor did. Abbott has been...
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Raging fires prompt drone law change
2015-09-15 09:30:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
New laws are being rushed through to impose strict punishments on the improper use of drones in California.
Did Climate Change Create The Syrian Refugee Crisis?
2015-09-15 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Most of the nightmare scenarios attributed to global climate change have failed to materialize just yet, but recent studies have found that climate change may be to blame for the Syrian refugee crisis. When Syrian refugees leave their homes for neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon, and press on even further to destinations in the European Union and elsewhere, they are fleeing the violence and uncertainty of civil war, not climate change. But that civil war, fought between the government...
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"This is Future:" Gov. Brown Says Climate Change, Historic Drought Contributing Extreme Fires
2015-09-15 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: California Gov. Jerry Brown thanked firefighters for their courage Monday as they battled with nature to stop two fires raging in California that destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. "This is the future,' Brown said at a press conference Monday, warning that fires are "scary stuff' that were aggravated by a historic four-year drought and climate change. The Valley Fire, which started Saturday and grew to 61,000 acres (95 square miles) Monday or about twice the...
How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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