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Pants on Fire, Schmidt Tells Climate Change Denier ALEC
2014-09-24 00:29:51| TechNewsWorld
Google on Monday publicly denounced the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council for lying about climate change. "We funded them as part of a political campaign for something unrelated," Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told a caller to NPR's Diane Rehm Show. "I think the consensus within the company is that was sort of a mistake. We're trying to not do that in the future."
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Leonardo DiCaprio tells UN summit 'climate change not a fiction'
2014-09-23 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has told a UN climate change meeting in New York that climate change was not ''a fiction''. The star, who has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change, said there was ''evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now''. ''Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying...we're seeing extreme weather events in the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates,'' he said. The aim of the meeting...
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UN climate change summit: Stymied at home, Obama looks for climate support overseas
2014-09-23 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science: When it comes to energy and climate policy, President Obama will likely have more luck reaching across borders than he will reaching across the aisle. This week, Mr. Obama is pressuring world leaders to reduce global emissions as he and more than 100 other heads of state meet for the UN climate change summit in New York. The summit comes as a reluctant Congress at home largely opposes Obamas goals of promoting renewable energy and protecting against extreme weather associated with climate change....
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Kerry: Climate change as urgent as ISIS, Ebola
2014-09-23 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry said the threats posed by climate change should be addressed with as much "immediacy" as confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the Ebola outbreak. During a meeting with foreign ministers on Sunday, Kerry said global warming is creating "climate refugees." "We see people fighting over water in some places. There are huge challenges to food security and challenges to the ecosystem, our fisheries and ... the acidification of the ocean is a challenge...
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Ahead UN summit climate change, businesses press market-based solutions
2014-09-22 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses and ordinary people to pollute. The idea, long advocated by policymakers, economists and environmental activists, is that the world can't hope to slow the heating of the planet until its cost is incorporated into the everyday activities that contribute to it, such as using gas- or coal-generated...
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