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Obama Climate Change: No Challenge Poses Greater Threat Future Generation
2015-01-21 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama issued a direct rebuke to climate change deniers and to members of Congress who seek to block action to slow global warming. "I`ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they`re not scientists; that we don`t have enough information to act," he said, referring to talking points that are popular among Republican politicians. "Well, I`m not a scientist, either. ButI know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and...
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Energy, climate change make for touchy State of the Union topics
2015-01-20 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fortune: President Obama will likely touch on energy and environmental issues during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But not every topic is safe. President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night with energy and climate change as likely talking points. Theres plenty to say, of course. Gas prices have dropped sharply over the past six months to an average of just over $2 a gallon, according to AAA. Meanwhile, a bill to start construction on the Keystone...
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Climate change threatens staple potato crop high Andes
2015-01-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A silent threat has emerged on the last twenty years in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 3,000 meters high above the sea level on the Andean plateau. The rise of temperature in the remote part of the country has endangered the survival of over 2,000 Quechua indigenous families who have been traditionally growing potatoes for centuries. Abrupt climate variation and shortage of rainfall patterns over the last three decades are the core of this change. In December 2014, Peru hosted the UN climate...
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Media Hype Davos Climate Change Focus as 1,700 Private Jets Fly In
2015-01-19 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsbusters: As media outlets focused on the World Economic Forum's plans to address climate change it ignored the hypocrisy of the huge number of private jets flying world leaders and celebrities to that conference. Roughly 1,700 private planes will head to Davos, Switzerland for the 2015 World Economic Forum. That doesn't include commercial air travel or any other method of transit to the conference. Ironically, the top article featured on the "Agenda' section of the World Economic Forum website on Jan....
Pope Francis stand on climate change deepens distrust among US conservatives
2015-01-19 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Conservative distrust of Pope Francis, which has been building in the U.S. throughout his pontificate, is reaching a boiling point over his plan to urge action on climate change - and to do so through a document traditionally used for the most important papal teachings. For months, Francis has been drafting an encyclical on the environment and global warming which he hopes to release by June or July. Encyclicals are written with the help of a small group of advisers working under strict secrecy....
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