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Obama calls for climate change action in California commencement speech
2014-06-14 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama on Saturday repeated his recent appeals for action to prevent climate change, while speaking at the University of California, Irvine graduation ceremony. The question is not whether we need to act, the president said, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. The overwhelming judgement of science, accumulated and reviewed over decades, has put the that to rest. The question is whether were willing to act. Obama, who was speaking to mark 50th anniversary of the ceremony at which the UC...
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Obama says climate change deniers ignoring science
2014-06-14 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action on global warming to Saturday's graduates of the University of California, Irvine. Obama issued a call to action to the tens of thousands gathered at Angel Stadium even though he said Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence" and say climate change is a hoax or fad. "Many others duck the question by saying, 'Hey, I'm not...
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Climate change deniers serious threat to future, Obama says
2014-06-14 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Describing lawmakers and pundits who deny manmade climate change as a fairly serious threat to everybodys future, President Obama on Saturday called for less debate and more action in combating warming trends. Delivering the address at University of California Irvines commencement, Obama underscored the view of some scientists that the effects of climate change are already being felt nationwide and said he was allocating new funds for communities recovering from natural disasters. Speaking...
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Obama renews climate change push
2014-06-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama renewed his campaign to curb carbon emissions Saturday, saying the debate over climate change is over. Obama, who made the battle against climate change a core promise of his 2008 election campaign, has been stymied at the federal level by opposition from lawmakers. Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence," Obama told a crowd of more than 30,641 people, including thousands of graduates at the University of California,...
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Cities must prepare for climate change or get sued
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: While Congress is still mired in climate-change denial, insurance companies have no doubt about climate change. For them, the only question is: Who pays for its effects? The answer to that question is increasingly obvious: We all will. Farmers Insurance filed nine class-action suits in April against dozens of cities in the Chicago area for failing to prepare for the floods that left some neighborhoods navigable only by rowboat last year. Last Tuesday, the company withdrew the lawsuits, suggesting...
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