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Awkward: Watch as Florida lawmaker mocks Rick Scott official refusing say climate change
2015-03-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Raw Story: A smiling Florida state senator mocked a state official after attempting to get him the say "climate change," a term reportedly banned by Gov. Rick Scott. Appearing before a Senate budget subcommittee, Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management Bryan Koon spoke at length of the need for funds to warn residents in advance of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes in Florida, reports the Miami Herald. Following some back and forth between Koon and State Senator Jeff Clemens (D), Clemens...
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Top Beijing Scientist: China Faces 'Huge Impact' Climate Change
2015-03-22 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: China's top weather scientist has made a rare official acknowledgement: climate change, he says, could have a "huge impact" on the country's crop yields and infrastructure. Zheng Guogang, the head of China's meteorological administration, tells Xinhua news agency that China is already experiencing temperature increases that outpace those in other parts of the world. As a result, China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - faces a possible "ecological degradation," he says. "As...
Jerry Brown: Opposition on climate change borders on immoral
2015-03-22 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown said opposition to steps President Barack Obama is taking on climate change borders on the immoral, as he tore into Republicans in an interview aired Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press. Browns remarks came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., urged states last week to ignore federal directives to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Brown, a longtime champion of environmental causes, said McConnell was representing his coal constituents and putting at...
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Ted Cruz unfit to run for president because of his views on climate change, Jerry Brown says
2015-03-22 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), speaking Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," deemed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) "unfit" to run for president because of his views on climate change. "That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data," he said. "It's shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office." Brown said there should be urgency to deal with climate change. "I think this almost has to be at the level...
Climate change: China official warns huge impact
2015-03-22 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change could have a "huge impact" on China, reducing crop yields and harming the environment, the country's top weather scientist has warned, in a rare official admission. Zheng Guogang told Xinhua news agency that climate change could be a "serious threat" to big infrastructure projects. He said temperature rises in China were already higher than global averages. China, the world's biggest polluter, has said its emissions of gases that cause climate change will peak by 2030. However,...
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