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As Wind Power Lifts Wyomings Fortunes, Coal Miners Are Left in the Dust
2016-06-20 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After Kullin Orcutt lost his job at the Peabody coal mine this spring, he knew what he needed to do: join the exodus. Leave Gillette, leave the state, he said. Mr. Orcutt is a third-generation miner and one of 592 coal workers who have been laid off here since January. Thousands more job cuts are expected this summer. More people will follow Mr. Orcutt. While many businesses in Gillette are struggling to stay open, a U-Haul dealer has been nearly sold out since the school year ended this month....
Australia: The Barrier Reef is in danger but its still one of the worlds great sights
2016-06-19 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anyone in the Cairns tourism industry who might be feeling a sense of panic about the largest destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef since divers first strapped on snorkels is not letting it show. The north-eastern Australian city a global holiday destination where the natural wonders name festoons everything from the signs greeting airport arrivals to the local casino is celebrating a storming tourist trade over the last 12 months. Nearly three million people visited in the year...
Why the Tesla and electric car boom could be good news for the grid
2016-06-18 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Earlier this year, breathtaking numbers of pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 not only shocked the auto industry, but also suggested that a transition of the U.S. and world auto fleet toward electric vehicles could happen faster than expected. There are still only a little more than 400,000 electric vehicles on the road in the U.S., or just 0.16 percent of all cars. But predicted growth rates could have them at more than a third of new car sales globally by 2040, according to Bloomberg New Energy...
Obama touts the wonders of Yosemite and national parks, plus the realities of climate change
2016-06-18 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience Saturday that climate change is already impacting America`s national parks. "Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat - it`s already a reality," he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first family`s trip to what, with about 4 million visitors a year, is the nation`s fourth most-visited park, comes as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in August....
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The environment loves me. Im going to do very well with the environment. Its gonna be great
2016-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: In early June, two news organizations dug up documented but long-forgotten tidbits on Donald Trumps on-again, off-again relationship with the environment. And the incompatibility of the findings is emblematic of his long, complicated relationship with reality. Presumably donning a gas mask for the chore before him, Max Rosenthal of Mother Jones read Trumps 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback. The Donald, it seems, regarded concerns over asbestos as a Mafia-inspired conspiracy. The fire-proofing...
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