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In Coast Guard Commencement, Pres. Obama to Link Climate Change to National Security
2015-05-20 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama warned Wednesday that climate change is a growing and "serious threat" to national security, tying severe weather to the rise of Boko Haram and the civil war in Syria. In his latest bid to turn up political pressure on Republicans over the environment, Obama challenged 218 graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to take the threats of climate as serious as they would a ship in peril on the seas. "You dont sit back; you take steps to protect your ship," Obama said. "Anything...
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Obama tells Coast Guard grads climate change menaces US
2015-05-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising seas and thawing permafrost caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. In a commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy, Obama underscored the risks to national security posed by climate change, one of his top priorities for action in his remaining 19 months in office. "The threat of a changing climate cuts to the very core of your service,"...
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Time is running out slow climate change, Obama tells Coast Guard grads
2015-05-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Barack Obama delivered a somber lecture on the science of climate change to the graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday as argued that global warning poses a threat to national security. Obama's call to cut carbon emissions, which emphasized the impact that Arctic ice melt would have on the Coast Guard, came just over a week after he opened Alaska's Arctic Coast to oil drilling -- and about seven months ahead of a United Nations summit in Paris at which the president...
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California Joins 12-State Climate Change Agreement Ahead Of 2015 UN Conference In Paris
2015-05-20 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: California has joined a pact with 11 other states and countries to slash greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change. Gov. Jerry Brown signed an agreement Tuesday as part of a broader effort to pressure global leaders to adopt an aggressive emissions treaty at a United Nations-led summit in Paris later this year. This global challenge requires bold action on the part of governments everywhere, Brown said in a statement. Its time to be decisive. Its time to act. The 12-member agreement...
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Climate change could cause cold-blooded animals' thermal tolerance to shrink
2015-05-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Cold-blooded animals can tolerate body temperatures only a few degrees above their normal high temperatures before they overheat, which could be a problem as the planet itself warms, according to San Francisco State University researchers. Ectotherms such as fish, reptiles and insects can stretch their body's tolerance of high and low temperatures a little bit at each extreme, but that stretch, or plasticity, is relatively small, the scientists found. As a result, the animals will see their "thermal...
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