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Pope Francis and Leonardo DiCaprio Exchanged Climate Gifts
2016-01-28 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Pope Francis gave Leonardo DiCaprio an audience at the Vatican Thursday afternoon, bringing the two luminaries together in one place. DiCaprio, who won an award at the World Economic Forum this year for his environmental philanthropy, started by giving the Pontiff a book with works by the artist Hieronymus Bosch inside. He opened to a page with the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, which he said hung over his crib. As a child I didnt quite understand what it all meant, but through my...
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Sanders shuts down teen climate change denier: 'You're wrong.'
2016-01-28 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Bernie Sanders shut down a teenage girl who questioned the existence of manmade global warming on Thursday morning, to the delight of her classmates. A girl who introduced herself as a a "17-year-old biracial female," said that "from looking at the evidence I've seen the last few years... I haven't seen any actual scientific evidence that global warming is actually happening." "Thank you for your question. You're wrong," Sanders said with a chortle as the teen crowd at Theodore Roosevelt High...
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Hunt under pressure as Australia loses climate cred, gains carbon risk
2016-01-28 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: Australias poor record on climate change action and energy market reform has been highlighted by two major global publications this week, bringing environment minister Greg Hunt under renewed pressure to defend his departments policy. The first, the latest rankings of the Yale environmental performance index described by Hunt himself as the most credible, scientifically based, hard data-based analysis in the world shows Australia has dropped 10 places in its overall ranking on protecting...
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Here's How France Plans to Maintain the Momentum for Climate Action
2016-01-28 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Everything is done but nothing is done, warns Frances chief climate diplomat. It is little over a month since Laurence Tubiana helped engineer agreement on a greenhouse gas slashing pact between 195 countries in Paris, and she is keen to build on that success. The top priority is maintaining what she terms political momentum. Governments were closely involved in the build-up to Paris, but world leaders have short attention spans. A stuttering global economy and fears of a Chinese financial...
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Climate Change Could Tell Us Where Zika Virus Spread Next
2016-01-28 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: It sounds like the plot for a horror movie: A virus with subtle, easily overlooked symptoms (cough, fever, rash) that has the potential to cause serious birth defects and long-term neurological problems is carried by a tiny mosquito thats rapidly spreading throughout the world. Global travel and climate change are creating conditions perfectly designed to increase that mosquitos breeding potential and lengthen its biting season, leading scientists to use the term pandemic to describe the Zika...
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