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Climate Change May Have Impacted Half of 2012's Extreme Weather
2013-09-06 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: 2012 was a rough year around the globe, and not for any of the Planet X/Mayan calendar doomsday reasons people feared. Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United States; record rainfall in the United Kingdom; unusually heavy rains in Kenya, Somalia, Japan, and Australia; drought in Spain; floods in China. And of course there was Superstorm Sandy. One of the first questions asked in the wake of such an extreme weather event is: Is this due to climate change?...
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Gore aide: Ex-VP, climate change are media 'piatas'
2013-09-06 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Al Gore and climate change are favorite piatas for the media, an official with the former vice presidents climate change group said in an internal memo to staff. The missive from Dan Stiles, the chief operating officer of the Climate Reality Project, was in response to a story by BuzzFeed that suggested Gores group is getting smaller in size and scope. In the letter to staff, obtained by BuzzFeed, Stiles called Gore a fearless leader, and slammed the press for its coverage of the ex-Veep...
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Climate change is cleaving the GOP in two
2013-09-06 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Earlier this summer, conservatives and libertarians packed Washington, D.C.`s Globe Theatre for a debate on how - or whether, even - Republicans should fight climate change. On one side were analysts from the Heartland Institute and Heritage Foundation, two climate skepticism groups convinced the Right should never support a tax on the carbon dioxide Americans emit for free. Theirs is also the position of the Republican Party, whose leaders openly question the science behind global warming,...
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Watch: How Climate Change Became the Killing Fields of Australian Politics
2013-09-06 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
James West: For years, the question of what to do about climate change has toppled Aussie leaders and divided the country. Will Saturday`s election bring peace? As you watched last year`s US election, did you find yourself aggrieved by the lack of big climate change talk from your leaders? Well, I have an election you`re going to want to watch. This weekend, a nation gripped to the point of near-hysteria over carbon abatement policies (yes, there is such a country) will finally put to rest an epic struggle...
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McKinley: Climate change not all man-made
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
State Journal: "Is there something I can contribute? How can I take a business perspective to Congress?" During his presentation at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Business Summit Aug. 29, those are the questions Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., said he asked himself before re-entering the world of politics after being away for 16 years. "I looked at the situation that was happening across the country after being out for 16 years and thought maybe it's time (to) quit worrying about ourselves...
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