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Most Americans Support Government Action on Climate Change, Poll Finds
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future. In a finding that could have implications for the 2016 presidential campaign, the poll also found that two-thirds of Americans say they are more likely to vote for political candidates who campaign on fighting climate...
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Liberia Vulnerable to Climate Change
2015-01-30 14:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Dawn: The environmental protection agency or EPA has alarmed here that Liberia is vulnerable to climate change due to the high rate of poverty, poor infrastructure, as well as inadequate and lack of trained human resources, among others. The EPA described the vulnerability of the country as a serious threat to country's Poverty Reduction Strategy, also threatening national sustainable development, peace, security and stability. According to the EPA, Adaptation and mitigation options were two main strategies...
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U.S. EPA chief hopes Pope will spur concern on climate change
2015-01-30 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday she hoped Pope Francis' upcoming message to his flock on the environment would help galvanize concern about climate change and convince skeptics that "the science is real". EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, visiting the Vatican to discuss climate change, said U.S. President Barack Obama shared the pope's belief that it was a moral issue because its effects would be felt most by the poorest and weakest nations. "The pope knows his...
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Obama ignores Obama on climate change
2015-01-30 05:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Obama is once again contradicting himself on climate change. His new push for offshore oil and gas drilling is just the latest instance. Last week, in his State of the Union address, Obama reiterated at length the urgent threat climate change presents and the importance of taking decisive action to address it. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security, he said. We should act like it. But Obama himself isnt acting like it. This week,...
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Climate Change Is Altering the Global Heat Engine
2015-01-30 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian: Climate scientists have been warning for a while that as the planet heats up, storms will become fewer but stronger. This trend has been seen in a variety of historical data tracking wind speed, rain and snow over the past century or so. Now a team of researchers has figured out why, and the explanation is firmly rooted in atmospheric thermodynamics. Global warming is intensifying the worlds water cycle, and that drains energy from the air circulation that drives stormy weather, say Frederic Laliberté...
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