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TV News Misses Yet Another Opportunity Cover Climate Change
2014-09-22 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The People's Climate March on Sunday was perhaps the largest climate change protest in history. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of New York City. Celebrities and high-profile politicians were among the marchers. The protest was a huge topic on social media. All in all, it was a perfect opportunity for some of America's biggest news organizations to cover the topic of climate change, something that usually gets either ignored or badly handled. For Sunday talk show hosts, there...
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Climate change summit: Global rallies demand action
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide. The People's Climate March is campaigning for curbs on carbon emissions, ahead of the UN climate summit in New York next week. In Manhattan, organisers said some 310,000 people joined a march that was also attended by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Earlier, huge demonstrations took place in Australia and Europe. "This is the planet where our subsequent...
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All eyes on Obama, world leaders at climate change summit
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The forecast calls for picture-perfect weather Tuesday in New York City as world leaders gather to discuss the challenge of a changing climate. More than 120 leaders, including President Obama, are expected to attend the one-day climate summit, sponsored by the United Nations. They've been instructed to arrive with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures. Tens of thousands of climate activists marched through midtown Manhattan on Sunday. The demonstration, dubbed the People's Climate...
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Climate change is happening despite two decades of UN climate talks
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: World leaders have been trying to forge a global treaty on climate change for more than two decades. But persuading countries to abandon profitable fossil fuels -- and instead spend trillions of dollars on new technology and environmental protections -- has proved nearly impossible. The Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, expired two years ago with little discernable impact on greenhouse gas emissions. (The United States signed, but never ratified, the agreement.) Attempts to work out a successor...
Humble sparrow gives clues about climate change impact on birds
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The adage about canaries in the coal mine could similarly be applied to the humble sparrow which is being studied to gauge the impact of climate change on birds. Scientists from Macquarie University in New South Wales are spending 2014 carrying out the Sparrow Project. A few hundred sparrows were introduced to Australia from England in the 1860s. They have adapted well to the harsher climate and millions are now thriving as far north as Cape York to Tasmania in the south. The research...
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