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When Congressmen Deny Climate Change & Evolution
2014-01-31 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BillMoyers.com: Bill Moyers takes on radical-right Republicans for denying the science behind evolution and climate change, showing a video clip of Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), chairman of oversight and investigations for the Science, Space and Technology Committee of the US House of Representatives, who says evolution is a lie straight from the pit of hell and climate change, a hoax.
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United Nations appoints former NYC Mayor Bloomberg cities, climate change envoy
2014-01-31 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as his special envoy for cities and climate change, in a bid to build momentum ahead of a planned U.N. summit meeting in September. Ban said Bloomberg will assist him in "consultations with mayors and related key stakeholders, in order to raise political will and mobilize action among cities as part of his long-term strategy to advance efforts on climate change." Ban is seeking to re-energize...
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Philippine climate change envoy leads new protest fast
2014-01-31 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A Philippine diplomat who went without food for 14 days last year will lead another fast on Saturday in a bid to pressure world leaders over climate change, AFP reported. Naderev "Yeb" Sano, the Philippines' lead negotiator at United Nations climate talks, drank only tea and water throughout the last meeting in Poland in November, garnering world headlines and praise from developing nations. Sano's latest symbolic one-day hunger strike is an attempt to maintain pressure ahead of the next UN talks...
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In The American West, A Battle Unfolds Over Bugs, Climate Change And The Fate Of An Iconic Species
2014-01-31 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On a cold, overcast day last fall, Jesse Logan and Wally McFarlane hiked up Packsaddle Peak near Emigrant, Mont., not far from Yellowstone National Park. They had to climb high into the forest, at least 8,500 feet above sea level, to find the trees: tall, majestic whitebark pines, which grow slowly and can live more than a thousand years. A light snow started falling halfway up the mountain, the flakes getting heavier and wetter as they climbed. "You gotta want it to get up in here," said McFarlane,...
Australia: Death by sludge, coal and climate change for Great Barrier Reef?
2014-01-31 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There's a phrase environmental scientists and campaigners like to use to talk about the slow and relentless degradation and destruction of habitats and natural wonders. "Death by a thousand cuts", they call it, as small chunks of habitat are lost and environmental laws are eased or repealed. A bit of bush here for a tourism development, a stand of mangroves there for a beachside resort. An entire nature reserve for a coal mine. Sometimes, the threats come like pincer movements with all angles covered....
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