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How Barack Obama and Tony Abbott differ on climate change
2014-06-11 05:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the importance of climate change as a global issue Barack Obama (interview with Thomas Friedman 2014, published in the New York Times): The science is compelling ... If you profess leadership in this country at this moment in our history then you have to recognise that this is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and the planet faces. The good news is that the public may get out ahead of some...
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Aussie leader seeks to counter Obama on climate change
2014-06-09 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama's meeting with the prime minister of Australia on Thursday may get a little chilly when it comes to the subject of climate change. Australian media is reporting that Prime Minister Tony Abbott is seeking an alliance of countries to counter proposed restrictions on carbon emissions, including price regulations. Just last week, the Obama administration announced new rules to restrict carbon emissions. Obama and Abbott meet Thursday at the White House. Reports The Sydney...
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Obama 'Absolutely' Wants To Go Off On Climate Change Deniers In Congress
2014-06-09 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: President Barack Obama is standing firm behind climate researchers warning against the continued burning of fossil fuels, saying, "science is science." Obama said there's "no doubt" the planet will see a rise in average temperature if we burn through all of the fossil fuels currently in the ground. His comments came in an interview that will air Monday as part of the final episode of Showtime's "Years of Living Dangerously." "Over the course of the next several decades, were going to have...
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Obama on Obama on Climate
2014-06-08 19:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: WHEN it comes to dealing with the worlds climate and energy challenges I have a simple rule: change America, change the world. If America raises its clean energy standards, not only will others follow others who have hid behind our inaction well also stimulate our industry to invent more of the clean air, clean power and energy efficiency systems, and move them down the cost curve faster, so U.S. companies will be leaders in this next great global industry and American consumers will be the...
Climate Change Deniers Frustrating Obama
2014-06-08 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian Liberty Voice: Look, its frustrating when the science is in front of us, said President Barack Obama in an interview with the New York Times. When asked if he wanted to just go off on the climate change deniers that are in Congress, Obama responded yeah, absolutely. On June 2 Obama and his administration took what some consider to be a very promising step in the direction of reducing our carbon emissions as a nation, by mandating new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that focus mainly...
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