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Climate Change May Be Easing Devastating 2012 Drought
2013-08-15 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Early this week, when Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken toured an area of southeast Colorado hit hardest by the drought of 2012, he was greeted with a vast expanse of parched farmland that had turned into a moonscape with almost no vegetation. That area along the Arkansas River hadn't seen much rainfall in nearly three years, a long dry spell broken recently by a series of torrential downpours, leaving the moonscape even more surreal. "Some of that moonscape was standing water from...
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Keystone Decision Seen as Climate Change Test for Obama Abroad
2013-08-15 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate: The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has become a top priority for environmental groups and some politicians who oppose the projectand not just in America. With tensions over the controversial pipeline reaching fever pitch stateside, political activists and leaders abroad are closely watching the developments on the Keystone as a barometer of how willing and able President Obama is to make hard policy choices on global warming, according to an informal InsideClimate News survey. "Obama's intentions...
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Ron Johnson Accuses Group Fighting Climate Change Of 'Environmental Jihad'
2013-08-14 16:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) coined a new term to describe the push for climate change action: "environmental jihad." In a fundraising email to supporters on Tuesday, Johnson hit back at the League of Conservation Voters (LVC), an environmental advocacy group, for a new ad campaign attacking the senator and other climate change deniers in Congress. "The League of Conservation Voters is one of the many attack dog groups used by President Obama, the Democrats and the extreme left to weaken, defeat...
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Climate change in NJ: State report details what's happened, what's coming
2013-08-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inqurier: How is the climate already changing in New Jersey? Higher temperatures in both summer and winter. Different rainfall patterns. Sea level rise. More "extreme events' such as storms, floods and hot spells. On Monday, the New Jersey Sierra Club drew attention to a state climate change report updated and posted on the state website in June. Jeff Tittel, director of the environmental organization, suggested that since the state posted it without fanfare, officials were trying to hide it. Folks at the...
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Defense Contractor: Climate Change Could Create "Business Opportunities"
2013-08-14 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Of all the business opportunities presented by global warming, Raytheon Company may have found one of the most alarming. The Massachusetts-based defense contractor--which makes everything from communications systems to Tomahawk missiles--thinks that future "security concerns" caused by climate change could mean expanded sales of its military products. Raytheon, it should be noted, isn't exactly gunning for catastrophic global warming. Quite the opposite, in fact: In February, the company received...
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