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Climate change campaigners finish fast
2015-05-17 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marlborough Express: Bill and Robbie McEwan who have ended their Climate Change sit-in at the Blenheim Band Rotunda after a week of fasting. The father and son pair were raising awareness of climate change. A father and son who fasted for seven days and nights in a call to action over climate change have ended their fast weak but resilient. Blenheim's Bill McEwan, 70, and his son Robbie McEwan were joined by around 50 supporters at a break-the-fast morning breakfast at the rotunda in Blenheim's town centre on Sunday....
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Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change
2015-05-17 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet. A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification....
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March of the Penguins director to close Cannes with climate change film Ice and the Sky
2015-05-17 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: March Of The Penguins enraptured audiences worldwide and won its French director an Oscar. Now, Luc Jacquet is back with another film set in Antarctica one that promises to have a very different impact on cinema-goers, even if it does still feature some penguins. The director has spoken of his trip to the continent to film the documentary Ice and the Sky about Claude Lorius the man credited with discovering global warming and how shocked he was to see the effects of climate change at first...
Droughts, Floods and Heatwaves: Blame It on Climate Change
2015-05-17 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: As temperatures soar to record heights, blame it on global warmingbut only about three-quarters of the time. And when the rain comes down by the bucketful, you can attribute one downpour in five to climate change. Yet another team of research scientists has looked at the probabilities, and has linked extremes of weather with global warming. Extremes have always happened and are, by definition, rare events. So, for the last 30 years, climate scientists have carefully explained that no particular...
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A Catholic Perspective on Climate Change
2015-05-17 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American Thinker: The words of Pope John Paul II, spoken to the United Nations General Assembly on October 5, 1995, ought to inform Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on climate change and the environment. Pope John Paul II said, "We must not be afraid of the future. We must not be afraid of man. It is no accident that we are here. Each and every human person has been created in the 'image and likeness' of the One who is the origin of all that is. We have within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue. With these gifts,...
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