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Responding to climate change from grassroots up
2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. "I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda to join with me in this process of trying to mitigate against the effects of climate change," Dr. Evelyn Weekes told IPS. Bhimwattie Sahid picks a papaya in her backyard garden...
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Mayor of South Miami on how climate change could force it to secede
2014-11-08 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The latest report from the United Nations panel on climate science says climate change can be blamed almost entirely on humans. Some impacts, like rising sea levels, are already being felt in North America. Mayor of South Miami and biology professor at Florida International University Phil Stoddard talks to Brent about the reality of rising sea levels in South Florida and his recent vote in favour of the motion to secede from the north. Here's a Q&A between Brent and Phil Stoddard. I want to start...
Climate change talk scarce at science institutions
2014-11-08 09:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Visitors to Pittsburgh science-education facilities can experience an earthquake, look down the gullet of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and wander through a distant rain forest. But learning about climate change - which scientists warn poses a serious global threat - may take a bit more imagination. The Carnegie Science Center`s exhibits make no mention of climate change. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History`s 1983 "Polar World" exhibit says nothing about how ice is shifting beneath the feet of its...
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Google hosts fundraiser climate change denying US senator
2014-11-06 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Google, which prides itself on building a "better web that is better for the environment", is hosting a fundraiser for the most notorious climate change denier in Congress, it has emerged. The lunch, at the company's Washington office, will benefit the Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, who has made a career of dismissing climate change as a "hoax" on the Senate floor. Proceeds of the 11 July lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will also go to the national Republican Senatorial Committee. It's the second...
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Climate Change Activists Come Up Short In Midterm Elections
2014-11-05 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Tom Steyer, the hedge-fund billionaire, spent tens of millions of dollars in the midterms, mostly in seven senate and gubernatorial races. Most of his candidates lost, as will presumably one of his Steyer's key ambitions: major action on climate change.
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