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Obama breaks from Yosemite family trip to urge Americans to stop climate change
2016-06-18 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: President Obama on Saturday broke from his family vacation in Yosemite National Park to urge Americans to act on climate change, which he argued is destroying the countrys precious natural resources. Make no mistake, climate change is no longer a threat, its a reality, the president said in a roughly 10-minute speech, ahead of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the National Parks system. Obama said Yosemite rangers told him that signs of climate change, or global warming, are already occurring...
Climate Change Denial Threatens Our Planet and is Driving Us Crazy
2016-06-18 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy is a great new book by climate scientist Michael Mann and cartoonist Tom Toles. This book serves many purposes. It includes an overview of the basic science of climate change and human caused global warming. It has a compendium of many of the key science deniers, and a description of the well known taxonomy of science denial ("It`s Not Happening!", "OK, It`s Happening but It`s...
Climate change and the threat to our cultural heritage
2016-06-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The timing was grimly appropriate. No sooner had the United Nations stressed the risk that climate change poses to world heritage sites than curators at the Louvre, in Paris, rushed to move 250,000 artworks to safety from flooding. Extreme weather had forced the closure of one of the worlds most famous museums a museum, whats more, that is at the heart of the Banks of the Seine world heritage site, which stretches from the Eiffel Tower to the Īle St Louis, and where the river rose 6m above its...
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El Nino and climate change a dire recipe for Africa
2016-06-17 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The UN says 1.2 million under the age of five have acute malnutrition The most powerful El Nino weather event in half a century is officially over but its impact will be felt most severely in Africa, which is now in the grip of its most devastating drought in 35 years. Families across southern and eastern Africa had barely recovered from two years of erratic and failed rains, only to be hit by drought and dire food shortages. The United Nations said the food crisis is ruining lives on a...
EPA Proposes Climate Rule Incentives Despite Court Hold
2016-06-17 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: The Obama administration is moving ahead with an incentive program for its contentious climate change rule, despite the Supreme Courts action halting the regulation. Under the program, known as the Clean Energy Incentive Program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would give states compliance credits for renewable energy and efficiency projects that are undertaken earlier than the Clean Power Plan would require them. Its meant to be a carrot to the stick of the Clean Power Plan and...
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