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NYC Climate Change March Rallies Over 310000
2014-09-22 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: On a cloud-heavy Sunday morning, hundreds of thousands of people snaked down Manhattans west side for a march calling attention to the impact of climate change. Dozens of marching bands, two-story-tall puppets and banners of all kinds flanked a diverse range of marchers. Indigenous groups, labor unions, beekeepers and students, as well as a smattering of celebrities and politicians clogged the march route for over six hours while police officers mostly looked on. One man held a placard with GIVE...
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Barack Obama readies climate change push at UN summit
2014-09-21 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy. Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a "betrayal" of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited. Tuesday`s climate...
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Kerry compares climate change to fight against Ebola and Isis as thousands march around world
2014-09-21 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda. On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola. Organisers had called the day of protests in order to...
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Thousands protest climate change at worldwide rallies
2014-09-21 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tens of thousands of people marched in New York and across the globe on Sunday, joined by celebrities and political leaders to demand urgent action to stem climate change. Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, US former vice president turned advocate Al Gore, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and New York mayor Bill de Blasio marched down Sixth Avenue in what organizers hoped would be the largest such protest in history. In London, an estimated 40,000 people paraded past Trafalgar Square and the Houses of...
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Marchers sound call for climate change action
2014-09-21 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change Sunday. One marcher's sign read "cut your emissions or you'll sleep with the fishes." The "People's Climate March" in New York was billed as the largest of several protests held around the world two days before the start of the United Nations' Climate Summit. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon walked with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore along the two-and-a-half mile route....
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