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News Agencies Begin Ignoring Climate Change, Because America Doesn't Care
2013-07-18 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PolicyMic: Do you remember climate change? If you don't, according to former climate reporter David Fogarty, part of the reason might be that his past news agency, Reuters, decided to cut back its climate change coverage just as other news organizations are coming to the same conclusion. Rather than being the evidence of a global, anti-science, climate-denying cabal, Reuters's decision reflects a far more troubling trend: the news is covering it less because, frankly, we just don't care anymore. Over the...
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Obama's unlikely climate change partner: China
2013-07-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama has stumbled on an unusual partner in his quest to combat climate change: China. The world's two biggest emitters of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are finding common cause in efforts to reduce global warming, cooperation the U.S. says could clear the way for other developing, heavily polluting nations like India and Brazil to get on board, too. Skeptics question whether either nation will follow through on lofty aspirations. Still, the budding agreements are allowing...
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Five Ways Climate Change Threatens Energy in Texas
2013-07-18 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Department of Energy released a report recently looking at how climate change and extreme weather could make our power supplies more vulnerable. Given that its the nations leader in energy production, Texas was prominently featured. The report looks at both current and future threats to the energy sector from climate change. There are three major trends, it says: Air and water temperatures are increasing Water availability is decreasing in certain regions Storms, instances of flooding,...
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Climate change forces US Forest Service to shift its strategy on larger fires
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: Climate change is forcing the US Forest Service to rethink how it fights large wildfires. Global warming has increased the intensity of fires, forcing the USFS to spend more and more of its money fighting them. Now the agency has decided that it should be less aggressive in attacking big blazes, so long as they are not threatening property. In 1991, the US Forest Service's spent 13 percent of its budget on fire management. Today, because of climate change, that figure is more than 50 percent,...
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Reid blames climate change for Nevada fires, seeks funding for prevention
2013-07-18 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pleading for more spending on fire prevention as his home state of Nevada endures widespread wildfires, and says "climate change" is to blame for the devastating blazes. "The West is burning," Reid said Wednesday. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Democrat said the conditions that help the fires spread are fueled by climate change. "Why are we having them? Because we have climate change. Things are different. The forests are drier,...
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