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Call for climate change to become human rights issue
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: The International Bar Association says climate change should become a human rights issue able to be challenged in a court of law. It says the judiciary is inadequate for those suffering injustice because of global warming. It will now attempt to draft a new model statute, or law, for people suffering the effects of climate change. Liv Casben reports. LIV CASBEN: On the island of Kiribati inundation from saltwater is forcing people from their homes. ANOTE TONG: We have some communities,...
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Climate change 'will foster terrorism & fuel immigration UK'
2014-12-12 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Climate change will foster terrorism and will fuel immigration to the UK as millions of people are displaced by rising sea levels, a senior military figure has warned. Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, a former military adviser to the president of Bangladesh, said his country simply did not have enough space to cope with the rising numbers of people who would be forced to leave their homes due to global warming. A large displaced and marginalised climate refugee population would become "a breeding...
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Bill Nye: Stop calling Sen Inhofe climate change 'skeptic'
2014-12-12 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: There are a lot of words one could use to describe Sen. James Inhofes position on climate change, but some scientists and science communicators are most concerned with two of them: skeptic and denier. In a statement released this week, several dozen people from the science world asked the media to stop calling Inhofe (R-Okla.) and others who do not believe in the scientific evidence supporting climate change skeptics. Instead, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry argued, it would be more...
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Greenpeace stunt wrong approach to climate change: Bob McDonald
2014-12-12 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A stunt by Greenpeace activists, intended to draw attention to the climate talks in Lima this week, did more harm than good. Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace, has officially apologized to the government of Peru for defacing that countrys worldfamous Nazca Lines. Defacing historic monuments is illegal and immoral. In this case, 20 Greenpeace activists trespassed on the huge line drawings on high plateaus of Peru, made 1,500 years ago by ancient Nazca people. These incredibly...
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Climate Change Too Fast for Ectotherms?
2014-12-12 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Ecotherms like reptiles, amphibians and fish are normally able to adapt to changes in the climate, and have done so in the past, but this time around climate change may be moving too fast for these animals to keep up, a new study suggests. Many animals can adapt to a warming world by modifying the function of their cells and organs in order to compensate for such environmental shifts. But with the overall global temperature expected to climb 3.6 degrees Celsius (38.5 Fahrenheit) by the end of...
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