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Australia: Bernie Fraser criticises axing of Climate Change Authority
2013-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser has called on the government to retain an independent climate advisory body as it unwinds Labor carbon policy. He challenged the government's claims that it could get similar climate advice from other public servants. The Climate Change Authority chairman said he was frustrated and disappointed that the government was giving up a chance to receive ''good, independent advice''. The Abbott government wants to axe the authority as part of its repeal of...
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China is Acting on Climate Change & Country Can Do More
2013-12-08 07:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesnt go to China very often. But when she does it generates a lot of attention. After all, Administrator McCarthy and the EPA are important actors in implementing President Obamas Climate Action Plan. They also know quite a bit about how to address local air pollution as they have played a central role in Americas effort to significantly clean the air over the past 40 years. Both of those issues carbon and air pollution are front...
Philippines: Climate change imperils agriculture
2013-12-07 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun.Star: ITS only five in the morning and yet Josephine is already awake. She doesnt mind the cold weather of December. She has to clean her vegetable garden since a lot of weeds have been growing near the crops. She needs to plant some eggplants and tomatoes, too, since what she planted previously are already dying. I have to wake up early since my children have to go to school before seven in the morning, the 30-year-old mother of three and lives in Baguio District in Calinan, Davao City. I have to...
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Democrat, allies worried about climate change to push energy policies; key GOP senator wary
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Policies for promoting renewable energy will be on the Kansas Legislature's agenda next year, but a Democratic lawmaker and a key Republican senator gave dramatically different reasons Friday for why there should be a debate. Sen. Marci Francisco, a Lawrence Democrat, said she and her allies will push for changes that would encourage more businesses, homeowners and nonprofit groups to install solar panels and other renewable energy technologies to lower or cancel out their electric bills. She...
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Earth's climate: 'Abrupt change is already underway.'
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Maverick: For years now, people have argued over both the reality and nature of climate change on our Earth. Scientists, mostly, have increasingly argued the preponderance of evidence points strongly towards a significant change in global climate in the offing. Meanwhile, politicians, mostly, have argued it isnt happening, and, anyway, if even it is, it is not from the hand of mankind. Now a high-level American scientific body, the National Research Council, has thrown its full public weight behind the fact...
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