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Australia: Julie Bishop confirms climate change won't be high G20 agenda
2014-06-20 05:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: After weeks of speculation, the Federal Government has today confirmed it won't be making climate change a priority during November's G20 summit in Brisbane. The issue dogged Prime Minister Tony Abbott on a recent overseas trip, where he met world leaders, including US president Barack Obama who supports a cap and trade scheme and wants the issue on the G20 agenda. But the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, says it's not the right forum to discuss climate change. She's made the comments at...
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Fiji accuses global community abandon Pacific on climate change, singles out 'selfish' Australia
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fiji's interim prime minister Frank Bainimarama has accused the global community of abandoning Pacific island nations to "sink below the waves" instead of tackling climate change. Opening a regional summit, he singled out "selfish" Australia for criticism, saying there is "collective disappointment and dismay" in the Pacific at the failure to address climate change. "The rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten the very existence of some of our neighbours - Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall...
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Climate change, biological weapons worsen Nigeria security crisis
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Indpendent: Over two years ago, the United States listed climate change, use of biological and nuclear weapons, cyber attacks and transnational crimes as five major events that could change the scope of global security for the worse in the coming decades. The 2012 prediction contained in a report by the US National Defence may have been confirmed by recent violent events that have compromised the safety of lives and properties in Nigeria, like the insurgency being perpetrated by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram,...
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Not preparing for climate change will be costly, expert warns
2014-06-17 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: There is much to do, little time. The more we wait, the more it is going to cost us, Mark Egener, a disaster management consultant, said in an interview. Climate change isnt waiting for anyone, so why we are not preparing for it the way we should? I dont have an answer. That was one message that came out of the annual World Conference on Disaster Management held in Toronto this week. Egener, who specializes in climate change and spoke at the conference, said the reality of not planning...
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Climate change devastates Antarctic seabed ecosystems
2014-06-17 17:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is decimating populations of tiny species that live on the seabed of the Antarctic shore, threatening ecosystem stability and life higher up the food chain, scientists have warned. In a paper published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists describe how the warming of Antarctic waters over the last two decades has allowed icebergs to drift more freely, battering the seabed as they do. This has made it harder for most species to prosper on the seabed where most...
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