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Racism and the effects of climate change
2016-03-12 06:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Tribune: Black leaders in the fight against global climate change issued a call to action to arrest the impact of climate change on their communities. At a recent conference several speakers said Blacks in cities and towns across the country continue to be adversely affected by legislative and other policies that place power plants, brown fields, toxic waste, coal plants, incinerators and other generators of pollution in their communities. The almost daylong Sustaining the Future symposium held on Feb. 24...
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Climate chief expects 80-100 signatures on landmark treaty
2016-03-12 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The official in charge of global climate negotiations says between 80 and 100 countries are expected to sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change reached in Paris in December at a ceremony at U.N. headquarters on April 22. Segolene Royal, French environment minister and newly-appointed president of U.N.-led climate negotiations, said Friday that more than 30 heads of state and government have already said they will attend signing event. She said invitations signed by U.N. Secretary-General...
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Will Exxon face a lawsuit for denying climate science?
2016-03-11 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When listening to the garbled blender noises that come out of politicians or businessmen when theyre denying the scientific consensus on climate change, its natural to be frustrated, angry, even irate. But can you sue them? Environmentalists and their allies in Congress are putting pressure on the Department of Justice to consider its options. In a letter sent last October, two Democratic congressmen asked the Department of Justice to investigate ExxonMobil for decades of promoting climate denial,...
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Witness To Climate Change: Remembering Photographer Gary Braasch
2016-03-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jefferson Public Radio: Portland environmental photographer Gary Braasch described himself as a witness to climate change. He dedicated himself to making images that helped the rest of the world witness it too. Braasch died this week while snorkeling and photographing Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Braasch worked on seven continents, photographing everything from receding glaciers in Greenland to Pacific Islanders forced to leave their homes by rising water. He's known for his book "Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming...
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Marco Rubio keeps digging himself a deeper hole on climate change
2016-03-11 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Less than 12 hours after the Miami Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio found himself grilled for a second time by CNN on climate change. The night before, Rubio responded to a question on climate from Miami Republican Mayor Tomás Regalado, who, as an appropriately concerned Floridian, acknowledges and cares about the science and policy causing his city`s flooding. Well, sure, the climate is changing and one of the reasons why the climate is changing is the climate has always been changing,...
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