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Obama prepares climate change package
2013-06-19 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama's Berlin speech Wednesday heightened anticipation that he will soon announce a new policy plan on climate change. "For the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late," Obama said in his remarks at the Brandenburg Gate. "That is our job, that is our task -- we have to get to work." One possible component of a new climate change plan: Restrictions on carbon emissions at power plants. Obama pledged...
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'Climate change is the threat of our time': President Obama
2013-06-19 20:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global warming. President Obama, behind a screen of bullet-proof glass and perspiring under a hot sun, invoked Europes difficult past when it was divided by the wall that once bisected Berlin and...
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Obama calls climate change the 'global threat of our time' is Berlin address
2013-06-19 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama on Wednesday called climate change the global threat of our time" in a speech in Berlin. Amid signs the White House is getting ready to unveil new executive-level steps to curb greenhouse gases, Obama linked fighting climate change to peace and justice while calling for bold action. Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet," he said in a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. "The effort to slow climate change requires bold action....
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Will Climate Change Destroy New York City ?
2013-06-19 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The city of New York -- America's largest metropolis and home to over 8 million people -- will be ravaged by the effects of climate change within a few years. That's the bleak scenario presented by a recent 430-page report developed by a blue-ribbon panel of academics, environmental planners and government officials. The report, nicknamed "SIRR" for Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, presents an ambitious plan for managing the worst effects of global warming, which include flooding,...
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Report: Climate change threatening migratory birds
2013-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Michigan Radio: Environmental groups say climate change is the biggest threat in the 21st century to migratory birds in the Great Lakes. Every year, hundreds of migratory bird species pass through the Great Lakes region. But a new National Wildlife Federation report says climate change is reducing the range that these birds need to survive the journey. The report says climate change is affecting where migratory birds can feed and raise their young. We are seeing birds starting to change their habits based on...
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