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In 'climate change' controversy, a tale of two agencies
2015-06-22 03:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a steering committee to address climate change. The commission maintains computer modeling programs that show how climate change will affect water and land crucial to wildlife. It holds regular seminars to educate staff on the latest climate science. On its website, the commission has a Climate Change 101 page that addresses key challenges the state faces. Eight miles from the state commissions Tallahassee headquarters, the Florida...
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Can Pope end bickering on climate change?
2015-06-22 03:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U-T San Diego: Thrilled but not surprised. Veerabhadran Ramanathan felt that way last week when Pope Francis delivered a powerful encyclical pleading with the world to deal with climate change. The UC San Diego climate scientist helped shape the Pope's thinking as a member of the Vaticans Pontifical Academy of Sciences. I saw a draft of the Popes message months ago, said Ramanathan, who works out of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Some of the words he ended up using are different. But the...
Climate Change: Australia set to be lumbered with costly stranded assets
2015-06-22 02:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Billions of dollars of investments in Australia's fossil fuel industries are at risk of becoming white elephants as global momentum builds to address climate change. As Fairfax Media today begins a series examining climate change policies and politics, experts have spoken out about the growing financial risk posed by investments in fossil fuels. They say it is now likely the nation will be lumbered with costly unviable assets, especially in coal, as major economies take action to limit global warming...
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The Dark Money Funding Climate Change Denial
2015-06-21 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
De Smog Blog: The network of corporate-funded right wing think tanks in America is massive. The money that flows to these organizations is even more massive than the networks themselves, and it flows in almost total secrecy thanks to Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund. These think tanks and astroturf groups are the leaders in climate change denial, spreading misinformation and corrupt data to the masses in order to downplay -- and in many cases flat out deny -- the reality of anthropogenic climate change....
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Climate Change Impacts Western Wildfires
2015-06-20 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: As ocean temperatures warm, rain and snowstorms become more intense, but may also come less often, according to distinguished senior science Dr. Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Those are changes the people who fight wildfires across the nation have noticed. "The climate is changing. I mean if you look at the last 100 years the average temperature has increased, if you looked at the last 30 years the average temperature has increased," said Rod Moraga, a wildfire...
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