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Climate Change Is Destroying Americas Historic Treasures
2014-05-27 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Rising sea levels, relentless floods and rampaging wildfires are destroying landmark historic sites around the United States, warns the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists in a new report. The 30 threatened sites detailed in the report include places where Native Americans lived, Spaniards ruled, English colonists landed, slavery rose and fell, and gold prospectors struck it rich. Some of the sites commemorate more modern "firsts," such as the race to put the first man on the moon. "You...
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Climate Change Denial: A Costly, Politically Dangerous Gamble
2014-05-27 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MintPress: Half of the United States is suffering through drought conditions - including all of California, which saw huge swathes of the San Diego area swept by raging wildfires this month. In the Midwest, major rainstorms and tornadoes inundated the Mississippi floodplain for days, causing millions of dollars in damage. In Baltimore, hurricane-intensity rain contributed to the collapse of a city street. It is the consensus of the scientific community that the Earth is sick. According to the National Climate...
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Wary Climate Change, Indonesia Looks Lawmakers for Solutions
2014-05-26 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Comprised of over 17,000 islands that are highly susceptible to rising seas, Indonesia is taking stock of its position as the world's third leading emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States and China. Faced with the upcoming GLOBE Summit of World Legislators, scheduled to take place in Mexico City next month to test a new international climate change agreement centered on national legislation, the Indonesian government is in a race against time to evaluate its existing climate change...
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Investing in climate change is a long-term sales project, says governor
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Central Valley Business Times: Climate change requires different political values and hasnt yet captured the publics imagination, California Gov. Jerry Brown told the University of California Gianni Foundation of Agricultural Economics Climate Change conference in Sacramento last week. The next day the San Francisco Chronicle ran a page one article telling how fruit growing in the Central Valley is in jeopardy as the tule fog seems to be slowly disappearing over the past 30 years, according to a UC Berkeley study. In 1980...
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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
2014-05-26 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: No two trans-national issues are more closely related than the abolition of nuclear weapons and global climate instability, for three reasons: first, nuclear war is the biggest potential accelerant of life-threatening climate change; second, the resources desperately needed to address climate issues continue to be poured into nuclear weapons and their delivery systems; and third, the solution to both challenges depends upon the same new way of thinking based in the reality that national and international...
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