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John F. Kerry: Climate Change Also Affects U.S. National Security
2015-11-12 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was at Norfolk's Old Dominion University to talk about climate change, saying it is also a potential threat to national security. Kerry shared that as a former member of the Navy, he was deployed in Southeast Asia, stationed in Vietnam specifically during his second tour. He was assigned as a patrol boat skipper and that brought him to the waterways of the Mekong Delta. He wasn't in the country under complicated circumstances but he could never forget how...
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Canada's climate change agenda can be pushed forward by premiers, says lawyer
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canada has won the Fossil Award year after year for its inaction on climate change, but an environmental lawyer in B.C. believes provinces and cities can help Canada redeem itself as an environmental leader again. Especially since Canada's premiers have taken up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invitation to December's climate change summit in Paris. "This is going to be a major chat feast," said lawyer David Richard Boyd, also author of The Optimistic Environmentalist. "The real work will happen...
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Marin OKs ambitious climate change goals
2015-11-12 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: Ambitious goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions were approved this week by county officials who pledged to meet aggressive targets outlined in a climate change action plan. The county, updating its climate change program, said that by 2020 it intends to cut community greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent below 1990 levels, and those generated by government activities by 15 percent. Planners, noting that an initial goal in 2006 to cut community emissions by 15 percent by 2020 was met within six...
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Climate change: Tackling the Ostrich Syndrome
2015-11-12 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Idaho Statesman: You frequently hear people say, We need to wake up to climate change. I think most of us have awakened but have opted to remain in bed rather than take on the most daunting challenge civilization has ever faced. Using another metaphor were we ostriches, we have chosen to keep our heads in the sand. If you went to the Flicks on a Tuesday night a few weeks ago to see Naomi Kleins book- inspired documentary, This Changes Everything you had to have been moved by the message, which was, for me,...
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Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers
2015-11-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: You wouldn`t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth`s climate is changing -- and this is affecting one of the world`s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya. For Joseph Mwangi and his wife, picking tea early in the morning has become more difficult lately. "We have been experiencing frost on the leaves," Mwangi says. "This makes it hard to work, because the frost stings our hands," he added. Mwangi and his wife Alice Muthoni earn their living as tea-pickers...
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