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Talks on climate deal heat up over bill for global warming
2015-10-23 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, as developing countries worry they won't get enough money to tackle the problem. With just five weeks left before a U.N. climate summit in Paris, developing countries closed ranks at weeklong talks that ended Friday in Bonn and called on wealthy nations to make firm financial commitments to help them fight and adapt to climate change. The Paris summit "will be judged...
Georgia sues to block enforcement of Obama's climate change rules
2015-10-23 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to halt President Barack Obama`s climate change regulations, joining about two dozen states trying to block the White House`s cornerstone environmental policy. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said the new regulations, announced in August but just formalized Friday, were a "classic example of the Obama Administrations pattern of attempting to accomplish with regulation what it cannot achieve with legislation. The Clean Power Plan is the White House`s...
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These Bipartisan Security Experts Say Climate Change Is A National Security Threat
2015-10-23 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This week, a full-page advertisement titled "Republicans and Democrats Agree: U.S. Security Demands Global Climate Action" ran in the Wall Street Journal. The statement was undersigned by 48 national security and foreign policy leaders, as well as diplomats and former members of Congress from both parties. It urged U.S. government officials and businesses to focus on this growing problem and tackle it before it`s too late. "This issue is critically important to the world`s most experienced security...
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Americans have never been so sure about climate changeeven Republicans
2015-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Maybe it's the pope. Or the freakish year in extreme climate records. It might even be explained by the United Nations climate talks and the bright lights of the presidential election cycle. Whatever the cause, U.S. views on climate change are shifting--fast. Three-quarters of Americans now accept the scientific consensus on climate change, the highest level in four years of surveys conducted by the University of Texas at Austin. The biggest shocker is what's happening inside the GOP. In a remarkable...
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Copenhagen ghosts haunt climate talks
2015-10-23 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: "I already seen that movie, it doesn't end well, it doesn't, it gets really nasty." So said Venezuelan negotiator Claudia Salerno in a tense session here at the Bonn climate talks on Thursday evening. "I hope this is not going to be just a really, really nasty second Copenhagen," she said to sustained applause. Yes Claudia mentioned the C-word that was on everyone's minds here in Bonn. Copenhagen. The city where aspirations for a strong, global deal on climate change came to nothing in the...
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