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Featured Poll: Climate Change - Threat or Opportunity?
2014-06-09 23:20:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Although not all agree, theres some evidence that maximum wind speeds of the strongest hurricanes have increased significantly over the last several decades. read more
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Oregon Wild Calls Northwest Forestland Preservation and Climate Change Mitigation
2014-06-09 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As a week old Oregonian, I received an unprecedented and gracious orientation of sorts--a call of the wild" from the Pacific Northwest, if you will. I was invited to attend the Wilderness Conference hosted by Oregon Wild. Oregon Wild (formerly the Oregon Natural Resources Council or ONRC) hosted an event, celebrating just over 40 years as a conservation advocacy organization that has helped safeguard nearly 2 million acres of wildland in the state. The conference in downtown Portland catered...
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Australia, Canada: Climate change steps must not hurt economy
2014-06-09 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The right-leaning leaders of Canada and Australia, both under pressure over their environmental records, on Monday said action to fight climate change should not harm their nations' economies. The Obama administration last week unveiled regulations that would force the U.S. power sector to cut carbon dioxide output 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels. The move focused critics' attention on Canada - a big energy exporter that has no chance of meeting current climate change targets - and Australia,...
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Florida Congressman: If Humans Cause Climate Change, Why Did The Dinosaurs Go Extinct?
2014-06-09 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A Republican lawmaker from Florida dipped his feet deeper into climate denial on Monday, saying it is "foolish" to believe humans can cause global warming, and justifying his logic with a strange comparison to dinosaur extinction. MSNBC host Richard Lui asked Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) if he was concerned about the fact that voters tend to believe scientists on the issue of climate change. Miller replied by saying scientists were not in agreement, and that the climate has been naturally changing...
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Fighting climate change with taxpayer dollars isn't a fight against freedom
2014-06-09 13:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Conservatives like to project themselves as lovers of the free market. They believe that everyone should go out and fend for themselves, that the government shouldn't be getting in the way of those with talent and ambition and that it shouldn't be wasting "their" tax dollars on people who are too lazy to get off their rears and earn their keep. That story has a certain simplistic appeal and apparent logical consistency. Unfortunately it also has almost nothing to do with the reality of where conservatives...
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