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John Kerry just visited the most stunning example of our changing climate
2016-06-19 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On Friday, John Kerry -- who has led a push on climate change like perhaps no other U.S. secretary of state, culminating in the Paris climate accord late last year -- visited perhaps the starkest indicator of the problem in our hemisphere: the enormous Jakobshavn (or Sermeq Kujalleq) glacier of Greenland. It was part of a far-northern tour that also took Kerry -- who this year is leading the United States chairmanship of the Arctic Council -- to the remote Arctic island of Svalbard, where he...
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John Kerry Urges Business to Act on Climate Change
2016-04-06 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called on private businesses to move rapidly away from fossil fuels--both to prevent devastating climate change and to drive global economic growth. "If we're going to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we have to accelerate this transition," Kerry said in a speech. "When we talk about the future of energy, we are actually talking about the future of everything." The address, delivered at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New...
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John F. Kerry: Climate Change Also Affects U.S. National Security
2015-11-12 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was at Norfolk's Old Dominion University to talk about climate change, saying it is also a potential threat to national security. Kerry shared that as a former member of the Navy, he was deployed in Southeast Asia, stationed in Vietnam specifically during his second tour. He was assigned as a patrol boat skipper and that brought him to the waterways of the Mekong Delta. He wasn't in the country under complicated circumstances but he could never forget how...
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John Kerry Says Paris Climate Deal Will Not Be Legally Binding: Report
2015-11-11 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "It's definitively not going to be a treaty... They're not going to be legally binding reduction targets like Kyoto or something," Kerry said, according to the newspaper, referring to the 1997 Kyoto protocol committing states to limit emissions. The UN Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting of some 100...
Jim Webb and John Kerry: Ice Cream and Ayatollahs
2015-08-26 22:50:51| Footwear - Topix.net
The last days of the leisure class-or what John Kenneth Galbraith called in 1992 the "culture of contentment"-might well be remembered by this anecdote: Ben and Jerry's, the Vermont ice cream maker that features ice cream flavors named after '60s themes and figures, like Cherry Garcia, has found a new flavor : Iran Deal. "In an email sent to supporters of the progressive political group MoveOn.org, ice cream icons Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen asked recipients to join them in supporting the Iran deal to keep 'America out of another war in the Middle East,' " the Observer reported .