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Obama to order ocean protections with executive powers, Kerry says
2014-06-16 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, says saving the world's oceans was a vital security issue, and has urged leaders at an international summit to take immediate action on overfishing and pollution. Kerry, speaking at the start of the summit, said humans had caused enormous damage to the oceans, jeopardising the food security of three billion people on the planet. The two-day conference includes officials from 80 countries, and is the most visible effort to date by the Obama administration...
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Obama Greenhouse-Gas Cut Plan Is Rhetoric, Australia's Robb Says
2014-06-15 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas bid to cut power-plant emissions in the U.S. is all talk and no action, Australias chief trade deals negotiator said. Despite the rhetoric you get over here and all the targets for 30 percent reductions and all this, its just rhetoric, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said in a Sky News interview from Houston, Texas, where he was visiting alongside Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Theres no action associated with it. Obama is seeking state-by-state limitations on...
Australia Sees Obama Climate Change Plan as All Talk, No Action
2014-06-15 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australias chief trade-deals negotiator has labeled the bid by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. power-plant emissions as lacking substance. Theres no action associated with it, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said in a Sky News interview from Houston, Texas, where he was accompanying Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbott, who is seeking to dismantle Australias carbon-price mechanism before it hosts Group of 20 leaders in November, isnt supporting Obamas bid to pressure India, China...
Obama lambastes climate change deniers as radical fringe' in California speech
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: President Obama on Saturday tore into those in Congress and the media who deny climate change, calling them a radical fringe that threatens the future by shutting down debate even among those who might agree with the warnings. "Today's Congress is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence. They'll tell you climate change is a hoax, or a fad. One says the world might actually be cooling," he said in a commencement address to 8,000 graduates of the University...
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Obama wants college grads to call for action on climate change
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama called on Americans coming of age to demand that politicians respond more aggressively to climate change, comparing those skeptical about man-caused alterations to the environment to a belief that the moon is "made of cheese." In a commencement address Saturday to graduates of the University of California at Irvine, Obama delivered one of his feistiest critiques of lawmakers who object to environmental regulations he's pushing that are aimed at reducing carbon emissions....
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