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Watch Shane Smith Debrief Our New HBO Episode About Climate Change
2015-03-06 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: The third season of VICE on HBO just debuted with a report about the devastating effects of climate change. In the premiere episode, Shane Smith took us from the melting glaciers in Antarctica to the climate change deniers' conference to the decision makers at the United Nations and finally face-to-face with Vice President Joe Biden. It's a pretty sobering look at the irreversible changes facing our world today, and Shane saw the effects first-hand. Recently, he sat down to debrief on the recent...
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Meet the Merchants of Doubt': Spin Doctors Obscuring the Truth on Climate Change
2015-03-06 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Director Robert Kenners 2008 documentary Food Inc. inspired dramatic growth in local food movements across the country with its expose of industrial-scale food production. His new documentary Merchants of Doubt takes on another threat to the health and well-being of the U.S. and the world: the glib and seasoned marketers who sell the idea that climate change is a hoax. The film made the rounds of festivals last year. Today it opens in theaters in Los Angeles and New York City with opening across...
VICE takes on climate change, and guess what its pretty bleak!
2015-03-06 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The third season of VICE on HBO premieres tonight, and the star of the very first episode is - you guessed it! - Shane Smith climate change! Smith, founder of the now-massive media company, has made climate change his preferred cause célbre in recent years. After measuring melting ice in Greenland last season, hes At It Again with trips to West Antarctica and Bangladesh: West Antarctica being where the most ice is melting the fastest, and Bangladesh being where sea-level rise is most...
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How to Win Friends & Bamboozle People about Climate Change
2015-03-06 16:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: What is the difference between a magician and a man who obscures the truth about global warming for the fossil-fuel industry? Magicians are "moral liars," according to the illuminating new documentary Merchants of Doubt, by director Robert Kenner. That's because their magic acts use expertise in the art of deception and misdirection to entertain. Shills for the fossil fuel-industry, such as Steve Milloy, Marc Morano and others examined and accused in this film, use their expertise to fool people...
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Researchers connect climate change to food safety
2015-03-06 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change can affect our food safety in a number of ways. In a European study, researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University (Belgium) state that there is often a relationship between long-term changes in temperature and rainfall and vegetable and fruit contamination. For example, flooding may result in increased concentrations of harmful bacteria that can be quickly broken down again by UV light. Similarly, in one region fungi that produce toxins may increase due to global warming,...
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