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Billionaire Environmentalist To Spend $100M Attacking GOP On Climate Change In 2014 Elections
2014-05-22 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Setting his sights on Republicans who reject climate change, an environmentalist billionaire is unveiling plans to spend $100 million this year in seven competitive Senate and gubernatorial races, as his super PAC works to counteract a flood of conservative spending by the Koch brothers. NextGen Climate Action said it plans to spend at least $50 million contributed by founder Tom Steyer, a retired hedge fund manager and longtime Democratic donor, and another $50 million the group is seeking to...
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Sajak: Climate change tweet 'parody'
2014-05-22 05:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: "Wheel of Fortune' host Pat Sajak returned to Twitter to let his follower know his recent comment on global warming was just "hyperbole.' "As most of you know, original Tweet was intended to parody the name-calling directed at climate skeptics. Hyperbole,' Sajak tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Sajak later added in a statement: "Of course I was joking. Just mocking the name-calling that is directed at global warming skeptics within and without the scientific community.' These statements come...
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Climate change to result in less nutritional food, report says
2014-05-21 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Climate change threatens to undermine not only how much food can be grown but also the quality of that food as altered weather patterns lead to a less desirable harvest, according to a new study. Crops grown by many of the nation's farmers have a lower nutritional content than they once did, according to the report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Adaptation must begin now. Developing the necessary scientific breakthroughs and broadly disseminating them will require years, even decades...
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Climate change wedge issue in 2014? Billionaire Tom Steyer hopes so
2014-05-21 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: One of President Obama's wealthiest supporters is pledging to spend at least $50 million in a bid to make climate change the central issue in hotly contested elections in New Hampshire, Florida, Michigan and a handful of other battleground states. A group run by California billionaire Tom Steyer unveiled plans to aggressively target Republicans in seven states who have been skeptics of global warming. Among the political figures the group plans to target is Florida Gov. Rick Scott and former Massachusetts...
Public Opinion On Climate Change Not Altered By Scandals
2014-05-21 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: In 2009, hacked emails from the University on East Anglias Climatic Research Unit allegedly showed misconduct by climate researchers a development dubbed climategate. Several months later, news reports surfaced that an error had been made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes fourth assessment report regarding the rate of ice melt in the Himalayas. While those skeptical about the existence of climate change seized on these reports as evidence of biased climate science, opinions...
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