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'Merchants Of Doubt' Explores Work Climate Change Deniers
2015-03-06 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And let's listen to some voices of climate change skeptics. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MERCHANTS OF DOUBT") UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Climate is changing naturally. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: It has to do with sunspots, and it has to do with the wobble of the earth. BLOCK: These are voices from the fossil fuel industry and the industry of advocates who speak for them. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MERCHANTS OF DOUBT") UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: We need more data. The science isn't there...
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VICE takes on climate change, and guess what its pretty bleak!
2015-03-06 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The third season of VICE on HBO premieres tonight, and the star of the very first episode is - you guessed it! - Shane Smith climate change! Smith, founder of the now-massive media company, has made climate change his preferred cause célbre in recent years. After measuring melting ice in Greenland last season, hes At It Again with trips to West Antarctica and Bangladesh: West Antarctica being where the most ice is melting the fastest, and Bangladesh being where sea-level rise is most...
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Researchers connect climate change to food safety
2015-03-06 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change can affect our food safety in a number of ways. In a European study, researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University (Belgium) state that there is often a relationship between long-term changes in temperature and rainfall and vegetable and fruit contamination. For example, flooding may result in increased concentrations of harmful bacteria that can be quickly broken down again by UV light. Similarly, in one region fungi that produce toxins may increase due to global warming,...
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GOP White House contenders: An early rundown climate change positions
2015-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Freshly formed snowball in hand, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma took the Senate floor last week. He was there to discuss the "hysteria on global warming," he said, citing the snowball and a frigid winter in Washington, D.C. as evidence that the climate isn't changing. The senator was roundly criticized for being out of touch with the science of global warmingwhich involves fiercer winter storms. His prop threw the Republican Party's views on climate change into sharp relief. While top...
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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre
2015-03-06 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalism tends to be a rear-view mirror. We prefer to deal with what has happened, not what lies ahead. We favour what is exceptional and in full view over what is ordinary and hidden. Famously, as a tribe, we are more interested in the man who bites a dog than the other way round. But even when a dog does plant its teeth in a man, there is at least something new to report, even if it is not very remarkable or important. There may be other extraordinary and significant things happening ...
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