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Al Gore's ex-lawyer attacks Obama's climate change plan
2015-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DailyClimate: Constitutional super-lawyer Laurence Tribe will be star witness before a GOP-controlled Congressional committee as it takes on the Obama administration's plan to regulate the largest industrial source of carbon dioxide emissions, electric power plants. "Burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy," Tribe writes in his prepared testimony, in which he argues that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn't have legal authority to implement a plan that he says...
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On Climate Change, the Generation Gap Is Widening
2015-03-16 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: Two months after Metro Vancouver's ban on organic waste in landfills came into effect, many restaurants are still unsure how to meet it. Compost bins stink. They fill up with maggots and vermin. Disposal fees can be hefty. But a start-up called Urban Stream claims to have a solution. It rents composters with a bio filter for odours. They break down food scraps into nutrient-rich worm castings, which the company then sells to local farmers. "It's logical, simple and economic," said founder Nick Hermes....
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Vanuatu's president blames climate change for extreme weather
2015-03-16 07:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The president of Vanuatu says climate change is contributing to more extreme weather conditions and cyclone seasons, after cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation. The damage from the category five storm to the island nation has been extensive, and is still being assessed as aid workers scrambled to get to affected areas on Monday morning. The official death toll remains at six, with many more injured, and is expected to rise as communication begins to be restored. Vanuatus president,...
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Climate change brings disasters on steroids
2015-03-16 04:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SMH: Australia's $5 million contribution to address the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pam is a much-needed and welcome act. But remedial responses like this are not enough. Governments must also develop more proactive tools to help mitigate the impacts of disasters in the first place, including the displacement of people from their homes. Climate change-related displacement is happening now. It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu's population has been displaced by Cyclone...
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Climate change: UN backs fossil fuel divestment campaign
2015-03-15 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UN organisation in charge of global climate change negotiations is backing the fast-growing campaign persuading investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets. It said it was lending its moral authority to the divestment campaign because it shared the ambition to get a strong deal to tackle global warming at a crunch UN summit in Paris in December. We support divestment as it sends a signal to companies, especially coal companies, that the age of burn what you like, when you like cannot...
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