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Tony Abbott leaves climate change out of his drought relief calculation
2014-02-17 04:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It seems obvious, but apparently it isnt. If you remove the reality of climate change from government decision-making you risk making the wrong decisions. Obviously the drought is causing extreme hardship for farmers in parts of New South Wales and Queensland and the government is about to announce a package of short-term measures to assist them. But surely long-term drought policy needs to take into account the evidence that climate change means rainfall patterns are changing and that also...
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Australia: Tony Abbott appoints climate change sceptic review energy target
2014-02-17 04:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Tony Abbott, Australia's prime minister, has appointed a climate change sceptic to review the nation's renewable energy target in his latest foray against measures to combat global warming. Following his move to repeal Labor's tax on carbon emissions, Mr Abbott has announced a review that is expected to scale back renewable energy production. The review will be conducted by Dick Warburton, a businessman and self-confessed "sceptic'. Another sceptic, Maurice Newman, has been appointed as the...
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Kerry tells Indonesia: climate change is a 'weapon of mass destruction'
2014-02-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Indonesians that man-made climate change could threaten their way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of perhaps the worlds most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. Mr Kerry described those who do not accept that human activity causes global warming as shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues, and said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to hijack the climate debate. Aides said Mr Kerry had chosen...
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Winter storms spur climate change debate once again
2014-02-16 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The spate of severe winter weather gripping the United States this season has led to a fresh round of doubts about the climate change occurring around the world and whether mankind should try to slow the trend. But J. Marshall Shepherd, the former head of the American Meteorological Society, says the storms are no reason to start doubting that global warming is occurring. It's winter; it's January or February, we get snow storms. That's important, he said on CBS Face the Nation. Saying that...
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Kerry Warns Indonesia: Climate Change Threatens 'Entire Way Of Life'
2014-02-16 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Secretary of State John Kerry is continuing a push to move climate change to the top of the global agenda, telling an audience in the archipelago nation of Indonesia that rising global temperatures and sea levels could threaten their "entire way of life." "When I think about the array of global climate, of the global threats, think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Kerry said in a speech to students in the capital, Jakarta. "All challenges...
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