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'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source
2013-02-01 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: This past little while has seen some statements from unlikely sources about the critical economic importance of dealing quickly with climate change. President Barack Obama led off the batting with his inaugural address, calling on Americans to take the lead in developing the technologies necessary for the emerging low-carbon economy. He pointed to the drought and Hurricane Sandy as the most recent evidence that our climate is changing for the worse. But the most startling statements came from...
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U-Md. mapping tree DNA in climate-change study
2013-01-30 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The University of Maryland is seeking volunteers for a coast-to-coast study of trees and climate change. The university's Center for Environmental Science said Wednesday that the volunteers will monitor seasonal changes in poplar and aspen trees across the northern United States. The National Science Foundation has given the center's Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg a $1.5 million grant to study climate adaptation in forest trees. The scientists say they hope to identify areas where trees are...
Climate-change believers clash with skeptics as city hall plans for volatile weather of the future
2013-01-30 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: Predictions of a future with even more extreme weather in Toronto should be taken seriously, if only as a precaution, says a climate change skeptic at city hall, as others suggested the municipality may have to spend billions of dollars rejigging its infrastructure. The parks and environment committee unanimously agreed to set up a working group to examine the increasingly wet and volatile climate described in Torontos $250,000 Future Weather and Climate Driver study. Among its most alarming...
'Charities' Funnel Millions to Climate-Change Denial
2013-01-28 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A British newspaper claims to have discovered the convoluted way oil billionaires in the United States can funnel huge amounts of cash toward climate change-denial campaigns, while reaping tremendous tax advantages in the process. A shadowy group called the Donors Trust is largely funded by billionaire Charles Koch and his wife Liz, according to an investigation by The Independent. The trust indirectly receives millions of dollars in funding from a third-party group called the Knowledge and Progress...
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Former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis pushes market-based climate-change ideas
2013-01-28 07:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Caller: A former congressman says he has the solution to the world`s carbon emissions problem. And he`s a Republican. With climate change back on lawmakers` radar after President Barack Obama`s second inaugural address, former Rep. Bob Inglis is one of the few in his party willing to speak out on the issue. A victim of the tea party`s wrath in 2010, Inglis represented one of South Carolina`s most conservative districts for 12 years. Now he believes proposing a conservative answer to climate change could...
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