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Climate change: historians will look back & ask 'why didn't they act?'
2014-06-13 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Most historians think about the past. Some study the present. Very few, it has to be said, write about the future. But Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor in the history of science, believes that our inertia in the face of climate change will puzzle academics for centuries to come. The historian of the future will look back on today and ask, what happened? Why didnt they act on what they knew? she says in her sunny office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, surrounded by rocks that speak of her own...
Climate Change: Countries that Contributed Less are Most Vulnerable
2014-06-13 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: While most of the dangerous gases that had built up in the atmosphere over the years may have come from countries in the Earth's northern hemisphere, it is the countries however in the south that will bear the impact of the planet's global warming and climate change, a report released by ratings agency Standard & Poor's said. In a list that included 116 countries, the report disclosed the nations most vulnerable to suffer from climate change were Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh in the top three....
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Global Climate Change Is Worsening Instability and Making It Harder to Keep the Peace
2014-06-13 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: As a young National Guard Infantry Officer in Afghanistan, I learned from my commander that "a 75 percent plan on time is always better than a 100 percent plan too late." The fight we were engaged in was complex, but one simple fact that I observed to be true in Afghanistan applies worldwide: wherever there is hardship and instability, violent radicals and local authoritarian thugs thrived. The battles of the 21st century have largely been waged to protect some of the world's most vulnerable populations....
Obama talks climate change with Australian PM
2014-06-12 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Laura Barron-Lopez
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Climate change: how businesses can deal America's most divisive issue
2014-06-12 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. Radical religion-fueled vigilantes have bombed abortion clinics and stalked and killed the doctors who perform them. But it's not gun rights or abortion that has Democrats and Republicans most at odds today it's the science of climate change. This is sort of an ideal wedge issue, and its been exploited that way, said Lawrence Hamilton, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who specializes in the study...
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