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Climate change a major health threat to children, doctors warn
2015-10-26 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Climate change poses a rising global public health and safety threat, and children are particularly vulnerable, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a new policy statement. The group is urging pediatricians and politicians to work together to solve the crisis and protect children from the immediate and long-term health consequences of climate change. "There is nothing more important than protecting the health, welfare and future for our children and grandchildren," the statement's lead...
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Climate Change Is Already Costing Us Billions of Dollars Every Year
2015-10-25 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Climate change has already begun to cost us, and its only going to get worse. Hurricanes, intensified in size and frequency by climate change, are taking a massive financial toll already, according to a new paper. The study, published in Nature Geoscience this week, found that an increase in property dollar amounts lost over the past several decades in a case study was due to hurricanes intensified by global warming. Conducted by researchers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico and...
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Climate change cannot be a partisan issue
2015-10-24 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Now more than ever, it is crucial that we acknowledge the reality that is the Earths changing climate. Without question, this is one of the major challenges of our time and directly threatens the communities of South Florida. If left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely affect not only our families and neighbors, but the entire country. To view climate change through partisan lenses only detracts from efforts to discover practical solutions. This...
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The climate change fix we need: We'll never solve the problem until we do this
2015-10-24 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Democracy has not been doing well. For this reason, now is an awkward time to argue that it must be the fulcrum of the Anthropocene. In the United States and Europe, democracies have rushed into foolish wars and stumbled in the face of economic crises--or created those crises. At the time of writing, the North Atlantic democracies are splitting into elite technocrats, who wish they could govern without consulting the masses, and angry populists, who would like to liquidate the technocrats. Nondemocratic...
Climate change and Exxon Mobile's greed: Letters
2015-10-24 03:07:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
Climate change: The Guardian recently published a scorching piece by Bill McKibben raging against Exxon Mobil, which McKibben claims "knowingly ... helped organize the most consequential lie in human history," following the revelation by their own scientists that fossil fuels would create disastrous changes in climate. McKibben says Exxon Mobile organized and funded a campaign of disinformation and doubt: " t seems crucial simply to say, for the record, the truth: This company had the singular capacity to change the course of world history for the better and instead it changed that course for the infinitely worse.
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