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Climate-change laws: Beginning at home
2013-01-17 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: GOVERNMENTS like to cite external constraints--such as meeting the conditions for an international bail-out--when pushing through unpopular policies. But with measures to deal with climate change, the opposite prevails. Each round of intergovernmental talks on cutting emissions and compensating victims seems to achieve less than the one before. Meanwhile, according to a new study of 33 countries for GLOBE, a group of legislators from round the world, the number of new domestic environmental laws...
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Australia: Climate-change denial feels the heat
2013-01-12 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Scepticism about climate change in Australia may be something else that will melt during the nation's great heatwave. ''There's a powerful climate change signal in extreme weather events in Australia,'' said Joseph Reser, an adjunct professor at Griffith University's school of applied psychology. ''The current heatwave is outside people's experience.'' A study released by the university and co-written by Professor Reser found Australians were more ready to accept climate change was happening...
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EPA head calls climate-change shift a proud milestone
2013-01-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: As she prepares to step down from her position as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson said she is proudest of presiding over the landmark finding that climate-changing greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. "Americans are back to believing that something is happening with our climate and that mankind has a role to play in that. These are not natural phenomena," said Jackson in her first newspaper interview since announcing on Dec. 27 that she would...
Australian wildfires point to climate-change risks
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronoto Star: What happens when, bit by bit, the Earth turns warmer? It leads to extreme weather: In 2012, the United States was stricken by a severe drought in its south and southwest, torrential rains in Beijing killed more than 70 people, half of the Philippines capital, Manila, was submerged by rains, and flash-floods and landslides in Bangladesh affected a million people. Now there are wildfires in Australia, spreading with rare and dangerous speed. And with temperatures predicted to hit a record high...
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Avoiding a climate-change apocalypse
2013-01-08 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As you may have noticed, the end of the year was all about the end of the world. Mayan doomsday prophesies. Rogue planets on a collision course with Earth. Fear-mongering about an artificial "fiscal cliff.' House Republicans doing, well, what they usually do. Fortunately, for now, life as we know it continues. And scary as all of this sounds, the real horror show, the true existential threat, is yet another crisis of our own making: the catastrophic effects of climate change. There's no need...
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