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Thousands pack NY streets march against climate change
2014-09-22 01:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As thousands of peaceful demonstrators descended on Manhattan on Sunday to draw attention to a warming world, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry called on the worlds biggest economies to shake off two decades of gridlock and take significant steps to halt climate change. Speaking at the Major Economies Forum in New York, Kerry likened the climate to the immediate threats of Ebola in West Africa and Islamic State in the Middle East, saying its implications stretch far into the future. "We...
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Thousands call for action in NYC, around globe
2014-09-21 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action. Starting along Central Park West, most came on foot, others with bicycles and walkers, and some even in wheelchairs. Many wore costumes and marched to drumbeats. One woman played the accordion. But their message was not entertaining: Were going to lose our planet in the next generation...
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New York climate march draws hundreds of thousands
2014-09-21 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An international day of action on climate change brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets of New York City on Sunday, easily exceeding organizers' hopes for the largest protest on the issue in history. Organizers estimated that some 310,000 people, including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and elected officials from the United States and abroad joined the People's Climate March, ahead of Tuesday's United...
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Kerry compares climate change to fight against Ebola and Isis as thousands march around world
2014-09-21 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda. On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola. Organisers had called the day of protests in order to...
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Thousands protest climate change at worldwide rallies
2014-09-21 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tens of thousands of people marched in New York and across the globe on Sunday, joined by celebrities and political leaders to demand urgent action to stem climate change. Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, US former vice president turned advocate Al Gore, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and New York mayor Bill de Blasio marched down Sixth Avenue in what organizers hoped would be the largest such protest in history. In London, an estimated 40,000 people paraded past Trafalgar Square and the Houses of...
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