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How climate change makes the world more violent
2015-05-21 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Natural scientists agree that the climate is changing and that humans bear some of the blame. Social scientists are now attempting to assess the economic and political price societies are likely to pay for turning up our planets thermostat. The security policy community is especially eager for an answer. In the academy, the debate over climate change and its security implications gained momentum after researchers from Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, New York University, and Harvard...
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Obama calls climate change an 'indisputable' security threat
2015-05-21 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama has argued for action on climate change as a matter of health, environmental protection and international obligation. On Wednesday, he added national security. Those who deny global warming are putting at risk the United States and the military sworn to defend it, he told cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Failure to act would be "dereliction of duty," their commander in chief said. He said climate change and rising sea levels jeopardize the readiness of U.S. forces...
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Jeb Bush: 'Intellectual Arrogance' Think Science Man-Made Climate Change Settled
2015-05-21 07:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The climate is changing but the contribution of humans toward it is not yet clear, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said on Wednesday. Bushs comments, made during a house party in Bedford, New Hampshire, came just hours after President Barack Obama urged action toward mitigating the immediate risk posed by climate change. Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I dont think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and...
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Jeb Bush criticizes Obama for overstating climate change issue
2015-05-21 05:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Republican Jeb Bush said on Wednesday that the Earth's climate is changing but that scientific research does not clearly show how much of the change is due to humans and how much is from natural causes. Bush delved into climate politics during a campaign-style house party in New Hampshire at which he took questions from voters on his viewpoints as he considers whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. While President Barack Obama and many scientists believe humans are...
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Obama Recasts Climate Change as a Peril With Far-Reaching Effects
2015-05-21 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama used a commencement address on Wednesday at the Coast Guard Academy to cast his push for urgent action to combat climate change as a national security imperative, saying that the warming of the planet poses an immediate risk to the United States. The speech was part of an effort by Mr. Obama to make a multipronged case for his ambitious climate-change agenda, which he has identified as a top priority for the remainder of his time in office and as a central element of his legacy....
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