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Canada's Trudeau to DiCaprio: Your climate remarks don't help
2016-01-23 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Leonardo DiCaprio to tone down his "inflammatory rhetoric" on climate change saying it was not helping those who have lost their oil-industry jobs. The movie star had told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain town of Davos on Wednesday that corporate greed was causing climate change and "enough is enough." At a dinner later in the day, Trudeau, elected in October as the head of a Liberal government, took the 41-year-old actor to task. ...
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Multimillion-dollar regional climate change initiative to be launched in Barbados
2016-01-23 03:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jamaica Observer: A new partnership to help disaster-prone Caribbean countries mitigate the effects and adapt to climate change will be launched here on January 28. The Caribbean Community (Caricom), Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch the US$15-million Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP) that will bring together policymakers, experts and representatives of affected communities to encourage policy innovation for climate technology incubation and diffusion. A...
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Lake Poopo: Bolivia's second largest lake dries up due to climate change
2016-01-23 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Bolivias second largest lake has disappeared, displacing hundreds if not thousands of people who depend on it for their livelihoods. Lake Poopo was officially declared evaporated last month in what scientists have said serves as a warning about climate change. The lake - which is situated more than 12,000 feet above sea level on the countrys Andean plains - has all but dried up before due to El Nino, but had rebounded to twice the size of Los Angeles. But scientists say this time recovery...
Zona Politics: How Will Climate Change Affect Us in the Years To Come?
2016-01-23 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tucson Weekly: On this week's episode of Zona Politics: UA College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz talks about climate change and previews the UA's Spring Lecture Series, Earth Transformed, Then Kacey Ernst, a UA associate professor of public health, joins me to talk about how climate change will impact human health, particularly when it comes to us here in the Southwestern United States. The Spring Lecture Series kicks off Monday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. at UA Centennial Hall, with UA geosciences professor talking about...
Twitter fight! Bernie and Hillary battle it out over who has the better climate plan
2016-01-23 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When was the last presidential race in which the two leading candidates for a major partys nomination aggressively competed over who has the best plan to address climate change? Oh, right, never. But 2016 is a new era. This week, the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns talked smack to each other on social media, fighting for the hearts of climate hawks. It started on Wednesday, when Sanders - who last month released a very ambitious, but legislatively focused, climate plan - challenged...
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