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Climate change supporters suffer losses
2014-11-05 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Despite millions spent to make climate change a wedge issue during the midterms, environmentally friendly candidates didnt fare well on Election Day. Green groups funneled an unprecedented amount of money into top Senate races that determined control of the upper chamber but fell short. The nations top environmental groups including the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and billionaire Tom Steyers NextGen Climate...
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India: Narendra Modi government reconstitutes climate change panel, no member from industry
2014-11-05 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Barely three weeks before crucial negotiations in Lima, the government has reconstituted the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, reducing its size and dropping members, including sole industry representative Ratan Tata and Centre for Science and Environment director general Sunita Narain. The 18-member council headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, like its predecessor panel, focus on national action for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. ET had first reported...
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Climate change is hurting poor countries right now. Why won't rich countries act?
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: All politics is local, Tip ONeill, the legendary Capitol Hill pol, used to say. He wasnt talking about the politics of climate change, but he might as well have been. Powerful governments around the world have failed to act in a significant way to fight climate change, and its pretty clear why: Their constituents dont feel in any real sense that climate change is affecting them locally. This is the fundamental inconvenient truth that advocates of tougher climate action face, and its underscored...
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Do we have courage to tell our children the truth about climate change?
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Montreal Gazette: One of the many fringe benefits of being a high-school English teacher is the opportunity to teach Harper Lee`s To Kill a Mockingbird. I have worked with it many times over the last 15 years, and I re-discover its literary genius and its compelling humanity every time. The ugly history of racism and hypocrisy in the U.S. South and the twin human curses of ignorance and cowardly conformity are interwoven throughout this story of children learning about their world. In their world, innocence is...
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UN panel warns of 'severe and irreversible' effects of climate change
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: On Sunday, the United Nations released one of its bluntest and bleakest reports to date on the dangers of global warming. The study from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the world must cut nearly all greenhouse gas emissions by 2100 in order to head off the worst effects of climate change. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders to act, saying that the science is unambiguous. We speak with three authors of the report about future impacts of climate change...
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