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Endangered chimp habitat under threat from climate change
2015-01-22 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change could make life more difficult for the worlds rarest chimpanzee subspecies, reported a team of scientists in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology on Tuesday. The range of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) spans the border of its namesake countries, and it inhabits mountain rainforests as well as the transition zone between the forest and the savanna what scientists call an ecotone. About half of the 6,000 remaining Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees live in...
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Romney: Climate change is real and humans contribute
2015-01-22 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US Today: Mitt Romney is not a climate change denier. As he considers a third presidential bid, Romney cited climate change as one of those issues that political leaders in Washington are failing to address. "I`m one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that," he said Wednesday at an investment management conference in Utah, the Associated Press reported. Although he gave no clues about a 2016 race, Romney outlined some of the issues that could be central...
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Climate deniers: Reader responses to climate change editorial
2015-01-22 17:18:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
In December, Editor Kurt Lawton wrote a column called "Why climate deniers?" In his editorial, he wondered why farmers are denying that climate change is occurring. Lawton cited several pieces pointing to the change, and received many responses from valued readers expressing their thoughts on the climate change issue. Read their letters here! read more
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Obama Issues Order on Arctic Climate Change
2015-01-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing a new panel that will advise the federal government on preserving the Alaskan Arctic. Obama said he was establishing the Arctic Executive Steering Committee to help juggle the variety of tribal, scientific, corporate, and federal interests at play in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen at twice the rate as the rest of the United States. "As the Arctic has changed, the number of Federal working groups created to address...
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Senate votes that climate change isn't a 'hoax'
2015-01-22 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: United States senators are now on the record on the question of whether climate change is a hoax. But a majority of the Senate, including 15 Republicans, are also on record stating that human activity contributes to climate change. The Senate on Wednesday passed a measure stating that climate change is real and is not a hoax by a margin of 98-1. The Senate also voted down two amendments to the bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline stating that human activity contributes to climate change....
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