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US House denies Pentagon funds to tackle climate change as security threat
2014-05-23 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RT: The US House has voted to deny the Pentagon funding to combat impacts of climate change and its own heavy dependence on fossil fuels. The Department has long acknowledged the realities of global warming amid political wrangling over its effects. The House voted, mostly along party lines, to pass an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aims to prevent the Pentagon from using appropriated funding to address the myriad national security concerns the Department of Defense...
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Climate change: Republicans are in denial
2014-05-23 00:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Not all that long ago, leading Republicans took strong positions on climate change. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the partys 2008 presidential nominee, co-authored legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions. And former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee presented the fight against global warming as a religious cause. These days, its difficult to find a Republican candidate willing to speak out in favor of doing something. Anyone who does so risks defeat in GOP primaries, where ardent climate change...
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The 95% Doctrine: Climate Change as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
2014-05-22 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The fossil fuel industry is waging a war on the planet's ecosystem and her people. It's not only unnecessary and obscene, but should be considered a crime. (Image: public domain)Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of "information' from top figures in the Bush administration about the secret Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and so endanger the United States. And who -- other than a few suckers -- could have doubted that Saddam Hussein...
CNN's Climate Change Coverage: Starring Ann Coulter
2014-05-22 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FAIR: CNN president Jeff Zucker recently admitted that his news network doesn't do much on climate change. But a few days later they managed to cover it--and you wish they hadn't. As he explained at an awards ceremony (Capital New York, 5/20/14): Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention...but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the...
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White: Climate Change, Energy Use Discussion Need Not Be Polarizing
2014-05-22 10:50:00| OGI
Jim White, a professor and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder, talked about the energy footprint and choices.
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