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The EU's Hard Choice: Climate Change or National Politics
2016-05-27 23:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last years Paris Climate Agreement at COP21 marked a paradigm shift in the international response to climate change. Skeptics argue the targets arent ambitious enough, but few can deny that COP21, thanks in part to Europes leadership, achieved the first multilateral climate agreement since the Kyoto Protocol. In April 2016, with Earth Day as a backdrop, 175 parties accounting for 94% of global emissions reconvened to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. But only 15 countriesmainly small island...
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Trump vows scuttle Paris climate agreement in 'America first' energy speech
2016-05-27 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Crouton: "Under my presidency, we'll accomplish a complete American energy independence". Shortly after that statement, though, Trump said: "The government should not pick winners and losers". Just prior to the North Dakota event, Trump surpassed the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination after 29 unbound Republican delegates told the Associated Press that they would support him at the party's July convention. "We are a vanishingly small threat to eagles", Kelley said. "But I'm always...
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Rattled by Trump, G7 nations eager to move up timeline for the Paris climate deal
2016-05-27 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: This week, leaders of the world`s wealthiest developed countries and the E.U., the G7, met in Japan, where they agreed to expedite the Paris climate agreement so it enters into force by the end of the year. He was difficult to avoid, after all. On Thursday, the professional Twitter user delivered a lengthy speech on energy policy, in which he doubled down on his commitment to "cancel the Paris climate agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs." Seventeen...
Here's what Donald Trump had to say about climate change
2016-05-27 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In an address on energy Thursday, Donald Trump laid out a new breed of climate skepticism taking hold among conservatives. He pledged to deregulate the American fossil-fuel industry, he decried the cost of renewable energy, and he promised American energy independence to an enthusiastic crowd of oil executives. But he steered clear of climate change entirely. It is not that Republicans have changed their position on climate change. Some 56 percent of Republicans in the 114th Congress denied...
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5 Ag stories: Hail damaged crops, soybean nutrition, climate change
2016-05-27 20:41:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
In the 5 ag stories to read this week, get some insight into replant options for hail-damaged crops and keys to proper soybean nutrition. Find out how climate change will impact corn yields in the future and consider switching unplanted corn acres to soybeans this year. Finally, we pay tribute to the farmer soldiers this Memorial Day. read more
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