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Call for climate change to become human rights issue
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: The International Bar Association says climate change should become a human rights issue able to be challenged in a court of law. It says the judiciary is inadequate for those suffering injustice because of global warming. It will now attempt to draft a new model statute, or law, for people suffering the effects of climate change. Liv Casben reports. LIV CASBEN: On the island of Kiribati inundation from saltwater is forcing people from their homes. ANOTE TONG: We have some communities,...
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COP 20: The cost of climate change
2014-12-13 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Global climate negotiators have gathered in Lima, Peru, for the annual United Nations climate change conference COP 20, to discuss how to combat climate change and who should pay for curbing the world's fossil fuel emissions. There is a prevailing theory it should be the rich industrialised nations as they have been responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases. And five years ago, they were pledging to increase funding by $100bn a year by the year 2020. The UN estimates as much as $175bn...
Keep talking about climate change, Democrats
2014-12-12 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Yale University has funded an interesting new poll that goes deep into Americans attitudes towards climate change. Hopefully, its findings will encourage Democrats to talk as much as possible about the issue. The key findings are that Americans believe by 56-20 that global warming is happening; 72 percent are very or moderately worried about it; and 50 percent say human activity is a key cause. Thats good. But the question then becomes: What are Americans prepared to do about it? And on that...
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Climate change 'will foster terrorism & fuel immigration UK'
2014-12-12 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change will foster terrorism and will fuel immigration to the UK as millions of people are displaced by rising sea levels, a senior military figure has warned. Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, a former military adviser to the president of Bangladesh, said his country simply did not have enough space to cope with the rising numbers of people who would be forced to leave their homes due to global warming. A large displaced and marginalised climate refugee population would become "a breeding...
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Bill Nye: Stop calling Sen Inhofe climate change 'skeptic'
2014-12-12 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: There are a lot of words one could use to describe Sen. James Inhofes position on climate change, but some scientists and science communicators are most concerned with two of them: skeptic and denier. In a statement released this week, several dozen people from the science world asked the media to stop calling Inhofe (R-Okla.) and others who do not believe in the scientific evidence supporting climate change skeptics. Instead, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry argued, it would be more...
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