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Climate change 'most existential crisis civilisation has known', says DiCaprio
2016-02-29 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar on Sunday, after being nominated four times previously. The actor was expected to win after dominating the best actor race all season, winning a number of precursor awards including a Bafta. Still, he said the industry-wide support hes received over the past few months feels incredibly surreal. This year in particular I was overwhelmed by the support from fans and people in the industry, he said backstage at the ceremony, shortly after winning his best...
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Leonardo DiCaprio brings attention to climate change during Oscar speech
2016-02-28 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Week: Leonardo DiCaprio took home his first Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Award Sunday night for his turn in The Revenant, and used his platform to deliver an acceptance speech decrying climate change. Shoutout to Leonardo DiCaprio who not only won his first Oscar but used his speech to talk about climate change! https://t.co/obOYdZ0vHI -- Music News & Facts (@musicnews_facts) February 29, 2016 DiCaprio, previously nominated four times, had kind words for his director, Alejandro Iárritu,...
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Democratic Party slams GOP presidential contenders over climate change views
2016-02-28 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Democratic Party released a video on Sunday slamming Republican presidential hopefuls for their opposition to action on climate change, suggesting the views clash with the reality of rising sea levels and shifting weather patterns. The video features Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his two closest rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, denying man-made global warming, juxtaposed with images of U.S. flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves. "I`m not a believer in climate change,"...
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For normally stoic farmers, stress of climate change can be too much to bear
2016-02-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The wind was unusually strong, and it swept across Saskatchewan farmland without warning or mercy to canola farmers who had just cut and laid out their crops to dry. Kim Keller, 31, remembers the mid-September day clearly. It was 2012, her first year working back on the familys 4,900-hectare grain farm in Gronlid, a hamlet about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. An auto insurance adjuster for the previous six years, Keller realized after a decade away that the farm is where she yearned to...
Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts
2016-02-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: As a provincial coroner and past palliative care physician, Dr. David Ouchterlony has seen suffering and death up close, experiences that have occasionally led to brief moments of sadness. But Ouchterlony describes such emotions as trivial compared to the dread he feels when thoughts about climate change linger, as they often do. He worries almost obsessively about a future he wont see. How will younger generations be affected? Why are we failing to act on the threat? I was completely blind...
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