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Despite split from group, Google's links to climate change denial run deep
2014-09-26 15:41:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francrisco Chronicle: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has given $29,000 over the past six years to politicians who could be lumped in with the "liars" on climate change that he denounced this week. Schmidt's donations to eight Republican legislators since 2008 have become part of Google's complicated relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the powerful conservative policy organization colloquially known as ALEC. Earlier this week, Schmidt sent ripples through Silicon Valley when told...
EU climate change chief: Obama has six months take substantial action
2014-09-25 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama has six months to deliver on the promises he made in a rousing speech at the United Nations climate change summit, Europes climate action commissioner said. Obama, in a well-received address on Tuesday, promised the United States would play a leading role in reaching an international agreement to fight climate change, due to be finalised in Paris at the end of next year. Connie Hedegaard, who is responsible for ensuring the European Union meets its climate change obligations,...
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NYC climate week: How climate change threatens our food supply
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather: Climate change and the worlds food supply are intricately wound together. The mass-scale agriculture currently used to produce food in many developed countries is one of the biggest drivers of climate change, producing massive amounts of greenhouse gases and fertilizer runoff that has harmful effects on the environment. And yet agriculture also stands to lose greatly as the climate changes and the landscape along with it. Droughts in California and other parts of the countries have devastated...
Pakistan: National agricultural economy facing climate change risks
2014-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Times: Senior Environmental experts said on Wednesday that national agricultural economy was being affected by five major risks related to climate change. Talking to APP senior researcher, Kashif Salik working with Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SDPI) said that being a predominantly agricultural economy, climate change is estimated to decrease crop yields in Pakistan not only as a result of flooding, but also as a result of changing temperatures, which in turn will affect livelihoods and food...
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Why climate change policy won't hinge on international talks
2014-09-25 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fortune: Its not that international diplomacy wont matter, but individual countries are already taking action to reduce carbon emissions for various reasons beyond worries about climate change. World leaders gathered at a United Nations summit this week to kick off 15 months of negotiations aimed at finalizing a climate pact next December in Paris. If you focus on those international climate talks, though, youll miss most of the real action. The fate of global efforts to tackle climate change and...
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