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Turn Up the Heat on Climate Change
2015-07-19 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Well there you go again you wacky scientists spinning their wild tales of impending disaster and doom all to advance their ultra-liberal social agenda which includes abolition of capitalism as we know it, forcing people to actually interact with one another by living close to one another, and instituting mass transportation regimes which once again force people to interact with one another, oh the humanity, the horror! Damn you who conspire to destroy this happy little piece of paradise that we have...
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Periled by climate change, Marshall Islands makes carbon pledge
2015-07-19 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Marshall Islands, a small island country at high risk of climate change-induced sea level rise, vowed Sunday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third within a decade. In a pledge to be officially filed with the UN next week, the sparsely populated cluster of Pacific atolls becomes the first small island nation to submit a carbon-cutting pledge ahead of a year-end conference in Paris tasked with producing a world climate pact. It is also among the first developing country to commit to...
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Climate change fuels wildfires
2015-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Wildfires are raging in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and theyre on pace to be some of the worst in history. Host Steve Curwood talks with Nicky Sundt, former smoke-jumper, now a climate policy analyst at the World Wildlife Fund, about the causes of current unprecedented fire seasons and how a climate change feedback loop helps feed and reinforce these wildfires. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston and PRI, this is Living on Earth. Im Steve Curwood. Alaska...
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For good and bad, U.S. tourism will change Cuba
2015-07-19 15:47:35| Apparel - Topix.net
Simultaneously, on multiple continents, the brilliant Germans, Turks, Argentinians, Mexicans, and other Americans at the Havana guesthouse where we were all staying had hatched the unique idea that they needed to get to Cuba before Starbucks, Chipotle and Urban Outfitters do. One local guide claimed that U.S. tourism was up 36 percent from December, when Raul Castro and President Obama become BFFs.
California is a global leader in combating climate change, but it hasnt been enough
2015-07-19 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Daily News: Nearly a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snowpacks and rising seas, created the nations most aggressive program to combat global warming. The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash...
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