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Science groups to Congress: Climate change is real threat
2016-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Thirty-one of the country's top science organizations are telling Congress that global warming is a real problem and something needs to be done about it. The groups, which represent millions of scientists, sent the letter Tuesday, saying the severity of climate change is increasing and will worsen faster in coming decades. Eighteen groups sent a similar letter in 2009. But Rush Holt, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said the climate problem...
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North American Leaders to Discuss Climate Change in Canada
2016-06-29 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Climate change will be a priority during President Barack Obama's discussions in Canada Wednesday as he attends a North American Leaders' Summit in Ottawa. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto will join Obama in announcing a continent-wide climate partnership aimed at generating half of North America's electricity from non-carbon sources by 2025. Currently just over a third of the continent's electricity comes from clean energy sources such as wind, solar,...
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Climate change 'most serious' environmental issue for New Zealand - report
2016-06-29 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Stuff: Climate change is a global problem. Urban areas are key to reducing carbon emissions, says an environmental report. Climate change is the most serious environmental issue New Zealanders face, according to a new report by the Environment Commissioner. Dr Jan Wright said there was "no question" climate change was worrying and had flow-on effects, in her commentary on the government's Environment Aotearoa 2015 report. That report had singled out rapid growth in dairy farmland and surging carbon...
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Australia: Tragic lack of leadership put red hot climate change out in the cold
2016-06-29 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If ever there was going to be a climate change election, surely this was going to be it. As May came and the election date was announced, the implications of the global Paris agreement between more than 190 countries just months earlier were still resonating the world was moving away from fossil fuels and the challenge to keep global warming well below 2C was agreed. The globe had just had its hottest year on record. April was the 12th consecutive month to break global heat records. In Australia,...
Committed to fighting climate change in face of Brexit - Amber Rudd
2016-06-29 04:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's government remains committed to fighting climate change despite last week's vote to leave the European Union, the country's energy and climate minister said on Wednesday. "We made a clear commitment to climate change in our manifesto and that will continue," Amber Rudd said, speaking at the Business and Climate Summit in London. "Climate change has not been downgraded as a threat. It remains one of the most serious long term risks to our economic and national security," she said....
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