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Australia: Bill Shorten vows to tackle climate change despite 'our failure to prosecute'
2014-07-01 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bill Shorten has vowed to re-fight the case for effective action against global warming, as he conceded Labor had underestimated the impact of the anti-climate change brigade. The opposition leader reflected on the breakdown in Australias political and public consensus on climate change in a speech which laid out some markers on leadership and the way to win over voters for contentious reforms. Shorten traced the current fault line on climate policy to Tony Abbotts rolling of Malcolm Turnbull...
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Battle hearts & minds on climate change fought across generations
2014-07-01 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Last week there was a bit of a hullabaloo when it was discovered that the international programme director for Greenpeace, Pascal Husting, was flying to work from Luxembourg to Amsterdam a few times a month. Sensible arguments could be made for this arrangement and in the bigger picture this cannot be considered an important issue. And on some level, it just didnt seem fair to single out Husting in this way. It wasnt fair. But politics and campaigning isnt fair. You cannot have a senior...
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Beseiged by rising tides of climate change, Kiribati buys land in Fiji
2014-07-01 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The people of Kiribati, a group of islands in the Pacific ocean particularly exposed to climate change, now own a possible refuge elsewhere. President Anote Tong has recently finalised the purchase of 20 sq km on Vanua Levu, one of the Fiji islands, about 2,000km away. The Church of England has sold a stretch of land mainly covered by dense forest for $8.77m. "We would hope not to put everyone on [this] one piece of land, but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it," Tong told the...
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GOP Lawmaker Says Climate Change Is 'The Greatest Deception In The History Of Mankind'
2014-07-01 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney (R) is accusing liberals, such as former Vice President Al Gore, of advancing "the greatest deception in the history of mankind" -- man-made climate change -- in a scheme to empower the executive branch and increase taxes. A specter is haunting America, Whitney, who is running for Congress in Louisianas 6th Congressional District, warned in a campaign video released Wednesday. It is perhaps the greatest deception in the history of mankind. Mocking Gores...
NASA Launching Carbon-Tracking Satellite In Search Climate Change Answers
2014-06-30 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: While in the political world carbon dioxide can still be referred to as an invisible, harmless gas for years scientists at NASA have been studying the way its dramatic rise in atmospheric concentration is affecting life on earth. On Tuesday morning, in a major landmark in understanding this relationship, NASA is launching a satellite to inventory where and how carbon is absorbed and released across the planet. It will be the nation`s first satellite exclusively monitoring carbon dioxide. The OCO-2,...
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