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Obama: 'No Greater Threat' to Planet than Climate Change
2015-04-20 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global warming certainly has one politician's attention. In his weekly address President Obama cited climate change as Earth's single biggest threat. Today, theres no greater threat to our planet than climate change, Obama said. Climate change can no longer be denied or ignored. Obama pointed out that 2014 was the warmest year on record, and that 14 of the 15 hottest years measured have occurred since the start of this century. The first three months of 2015 have been the hottest start...
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Obama says 'no greater threat planet than climate change'
2015-04-18 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change poses the world's biggest single threat. "Today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change," Obama said in his weekly address, which had an environmental theme to mark Earth Day on April 22. "Climate change can no longer be denied, or ignored," he added, noting that 2014 was the hottest year on record. The United States is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter after China, and Obama has pledged to reduce US...
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Italy's EXOR Offers $6.4 Billion for PartnerRe in Threat to AXIS Deal
2015-04-14 21:05:26| Automakers - Topix.net
EXOR SpA offered $6.4 billion for PartnerRe Ltd., seeking to break up the reinsurer's planned merger with AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. EXOR, controlled by the Agnelli family, is offering $130 a share in cash, the company said in a statement Tuesday, or 16 percent above the implied value per share of Bermuda-based PartnerRe under the terms of the AXIS agreement. An AXIS-PartnerRe combination would create the world's fifth-biggest property and casualty reinsurer, and was announced in January , the same month that XL Group plc agreed to buy Catlin Group Ltd. for about $4 billion.
Climate change is a threat to national security
2015-04-13 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: TODAY, there is a growing consensus that climate change will impact every corner of the world. Drought, floods, wildfires, population migration, food and water shortages, and extreme weather events: All of these issues can force national security emergencies and international crises that will demand a military response. In 2013, U.S. Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, identified climate change as the Pacific regions biggest long-term security threat. He said...
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Germanwings flight evacuated following bomb threat
2015-04-13 01:00:00| Airport Technology
A Milan-bound Germanwings plane had to be stopped on the runway and evacuated at the Cologne Bonn airport in Germany after air traffic controllers received a bomb threat.
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