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O'Malley doubles down ISIS-climate change connection
2015-07-26 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Martin O'Malley doubled down Saturday on a claim earning him some ridicule from Republicans: The threat of Islamic State terrorism and climate change are most likely linked. The Democratic presidential hopeful told Iowans during a stop at Peace Tree Brewing Co. that the rise of the violent radical group was spurred by tensions from a major drought that hit Syria in 2007. The U.S. needs to focus its intelligence efforts on better predicting how natural disasters will affect countries and use its...
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We have a moral obligation on climate change
2015-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Sun-Times: Last month, Pope Francis reminded us all that the Earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone. In his encyclical, the pope laid out the threat that global climate change poses to that inheritance -- to the clean air, clean water, and healthy environment that are the foundations of our society. He called on every person living on this planet to join together in defense of our common home. President Barack Obama has also spoken to our moral obligation...
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Get ready for climate change refugees
2015-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: Toward the end of this century, if current trends are not reversed, large parts of Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Vietnam, among other countries, will be under water. Some small island nations, such as Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, will be close to disappearing entirely. Swaths of Africa from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia will be turning into desert. Glaciers in the Himalayas and the Andes, on which entire regions depend for drinking water, will be melting away. Many...
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LMS Capital shares tumble on investment policy change
2015-07-25 15:43:15| Electronics - Topix.net
Shares in investment company LMS Capital fell by more than 5% after the company said it would shift its focus to energy companies. At 1351 BST shares in LMS fell by 5.33% to 74.31p as the firm said it would change policy, subject to shareholder approval.
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Climate Change Doomed the Mammoths
2015-07-24 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: Humans are pretty good at mucking up the Earth, whether were warming the climate, leveling the rainforest, or driving wild animals extinct. But climate change, at least, was wreaking havoc long before we got involved. For instance, its looking very likely that global warming, rather than human spears, doomed Earths wooly mammoths. Theres a popular belief that Pleistocene hunters drove many of Earths megafauna to extinction some 11,000 years ago. But with recent improvements in the paleoclimate...
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