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Obama touts the wonders of Yosemite and national parks, plus the realities of climate change
2016-06-18 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience Saturday that climate change is already impacting America`s national parks. "Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat - it`s already a reality," he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first family`s trip to what, with about 4 million visitors a year, is the nation`s fourth most-visited park, comes as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in August....
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Obama: Climate change biggest threat to U.S. national parks
2016-06-18 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama says climate change is the biggest threat to U.S. national parks. Obama says meadows are already drying out at Yosemite National Park in California, where he spoke Saturday after spending the night in the park with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. He adds that a rabbit-like animal known as a pika is being forced further upslope in Yosemite to escape warming temperatures. Obama and his family are spending the weekend at Yosemite after touring an underground...
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Why We Need Intersectionality to Understand Climate Change
2016-06-18 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truth-Out: In this article, Elizabeth Walsh exposes a few of the core challenges that Indigenous Peoples face both inside and outside the international climate change debates. By examining theories of civil society and intersectionality, the article provides useful insight into an adjoining three-part interview with prominent Native American activist and Indigenous Environmental Network Executive Director, Tom Goldtooth. Through this interview, Goldtooth explains in detail the ways in which Indigenous Peoples...
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Q&A: this professor talks climate change in the oil industry's training ground
2016-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: John Geissman heads the department of geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, responsible for the education of the next generation of geoscientists. He is also a member of the development board of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a perch from where he works to raise money for the organization. He has included a substantial bequest for the AGU in his will, as well. Among geoscientists in Texas, however, Geissman is an outlier. He believes the world must keep fossil fuels in the ground...
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Obama says climate change already damaging national parks
2016-06-18 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change is already damaging America's national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite's meadows to dry out and raising the prospect of a glacier preserve without its glaciers someday. "Make no mistake. Climate change is no longer just a threat. It's already a reality," Obama said from a podium, with Yosemite Falls, one of the world's tallest at 2,425 feet, as a backdrop. At the California park, where Obama was spending the weekend with...
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