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Here Are the 56% Congressional Republicans Who Deny Climate Change
2015-02-03 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Climate change is happening, humans are the cause, and a shocking number of congressional Republicans - over 56 percent - deny or question the science. CAP Action conducted a fresh analysis of public statements from current Representatives and Senators from the 114th Congress on climate change. Roll over any state on the map below for information on its resident climate science deniers, or click on the state to be taken to a new tab with full quotes and figures for each state. All told, 170 elected...
Poor Pikas Losing Their California Habitat to Climate Change
2015-02-03 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: American pikas, a pint-sized rabbit relative, are quickly losing their California mountain habitat to climate change, according to new research. These cute creatures have demonstrated their incredible resilience in the face of danger, but even pikas may not be able to adapt to our increasingly warming world. As temperatures rise, pikas are abandoning their low-elevation habitat and moving to higher ground to escape the heat. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz surveyed 67...
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Solving climate change will be difficult but worth it
2015-02-03 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: I wrote a post last week that seems to have caused a bit of fuss. I got a bunch of angry emails and Joe Romm is yelling at me on his site, so let me say a few words by way of clarification. Much of the feedback I`ve gotten ascribes beliefs to me that I do not hold - as revealed by a little something I like to call Everything I`ve Ever Written - so clearly I did not express myself well. This post is to clear things up, for the record. First lemme unwind a few things I really did screw up. My...
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How the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision Will Influence U.N. Climate Change Talks in Paris
2015-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Monday is the deadline for eight federal departments, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to complete reviews of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The critical milestone could put the Obama administration on track to issue its final verdict on the Canada-to-Texas conduit as early as this month, observers say. President Barack Obamas decision will have broad political impact outside the U.S. and Canada and could bolster -- or undermine -- the United States ability to influence global...
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The Countries Most Likely To Survive Climate Change Chaos
2015-02-02 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: The results of a new report show which countries are the most vulnerable to risk--and the most ready to respond when disaster strikes. Bigger storms and more flooding are some of the most most obvious ingredients in the risk stew brewed up by climate change. But what happens after the storms subside? What about all the secondary and tertiary effects of climate change? What about the challenge of finding the money or doing the infrastructural planning necessary to adapt to a changed environment,...
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