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Climate change deniers serious threat to future, Obama says
2014-06-14 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Describing lawmakers and pundits who deny manmade climate change as a fairly serious threat to everybodys future, President Obama on Saturday called for less debate and more action in combating warming trends. Delivering the address at University of California Irvines commencement, Obama underscored the view of some scientists that the effects of climate change are already being felt nationwide and said he was allocating new funds for communities recovering from natural disasters. Speaking...
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Obama Asks College Grads to Take on Climate-Change Deniers
2014-06-14 17:17:00| 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 yesterday to graduates of the University of California at Irvine, Obama delivered one of his feistiest critiques of lawmakers who, in objecting to environmental regulations hes pushing to reduce carbon emissions, question...
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I am a conservationist: Tony Abbott says no friction w/ Obama on climate change action
2014-06-14 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with US President Barack Obama on the subject of climate change. Speaking after his meeting with Mr Obama in Washington, Mr Abbott played down any differences between the two leaders, saying that both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he is a conservationist and there is no disagreement between himself and Obama on climate change. Photo:...
Australia: 'Conservationist' Abbott links himself with Obama on climate change
2014-06-14 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who has no disagreement with President Barack Obama on climate change. In an interview with Fairfax Media in Washington, Mr Abbott said any divisions between Australia and the US over climate policy were overblown, insisting both he and the US President took climate change ''very seriously''. Mr Obama is understood to have told Mr Abbott that while his administration wanted more co-ordinated international action on global...
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Obama Went On Huge Rant Against Climate Deniers In Commencement Speech
2014-06-14 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With a feisty tone and a touch of aggravation, President Barack Obama on Saturday laid into Republicans who question the science of climate change and urged graduating college students to take on global warming as a cause. A few weeks after unveiling rules to limit carbon emissions from power plants, Obama used a commencement address for the University of California, Irvine, to rally support from young people and slam opponents for denying that climate change is real. "When President Kennedy...
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