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Alberta is a centre of climate-change denial, but not all Albertans deny reality of global warming
2013-06-22 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straight: I merely pointed out that climate-change deniers, such as former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Australian prime minister John Howard, each lost elections for taking this position. And I suggested that the same fate could easily befall Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has modelled his career on Howard's. That prompted Alberta progressives--and a few trolls--to attack me for characterizing Alberta as "Canada's centre of climate-change denial". Some comments were...
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LDCs demand clarity on climate-change mitigation finance from developed States
2013-06-15 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engineering News: The United Nations (UN) Least Developed Countries (LDCs) collective has requested that industrialised nations provide detailed information about the finance they are willing to provide to aid vulnerable States in their adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change. This information should be provided to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP19) , which is set to take place in Warsaw at the end of the year, the group said. Speaking...
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By Degrees: What to Make of a Climate-Change Plateau
2013-06-10 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming. The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace. The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists. True, the basic theory that predicts a warming of the planet in response to human emissions does not...
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The 4 Species of Climate-Change Denial
2013-05-26 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: When I compared Angelinas Jolies decision-making courage when responding to a scientific consensus about the likelihood she would develop cancer to GOP decision-making cowardice when responding to a scientific consensus about the likelihood of civilization altering climate-change I expected some blow-back. But I also expected some interesting dialogue, especially about tensions in the Republican Party, what the National Journal titled The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change. Wow, was...
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Will Angelina Jolie Help End Climate-Change Denial, And Help The Republican Party?
2013-05-19 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fobes: File this one under unintended consequences. Angelina Jolie, by announcing her preventative double masectomy, will likely have significant influence well beyond womens health. By modeling how to think with data when data do not tell us what we would otherwise want them to say, she displayed a level of decision-making courage that business and political leaders should strive to emulate. For example, her leadership just may end up helping those fighting in the Republican Party to end ongoing anti-science...
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