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Climate inaction likely to deepen EU divisions paper
2013-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Union must take measures to prevent the destruction of crops and property by extreme weather or face instability and deeper social divisions as a result of potential climate change, a European Commission document said. The discussion paper, seen by Reuters, calls for a pre-emptive, EU-wide strategy, taking account of factors such as disruption to energy and food supplies. While most scientists agree that the planet has been warming, there is a high degree of uncertainty over the...
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Billionaire plans effort to calculate cost of inaction on climate
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: A billionaire environmental activist from California will launch an effort to quantify what inaction on climate could cost the country, a study that could land just before the 2014 election. Tom Steyer, a Democrat who's twice succeeded with efforts on California ballot measures, said the move is needed to shift the dialogue on climate and "try and systematically and rigorously quantify what it will mean to move into a new energy economy, and what it will cost not to do it." "We should address...
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A presidential adviser, radicalized by American inaction on climate change
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MinnPost: To appreciate the story that follows, it helps to know you're listening to a 72-year-old gentleman who has spent his adult life as an adviser to U.S. presidents, executive of U.N. agencies, scholar-professor-dean at some of the world's leading universities: [The police] decided to use the first group of us to set an example to discourage the others. It didnt work, but the result was that they treated us pretty much like common criminals. ... We ended up in a central cellblock in the D.C. jail for...
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Nothing to fear but inaction on climate change: Kerry
2013-01-25 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) pledged yesterday to make climate change a top priority as secretary of State as he sailed through a mostly genial confirmation hearing before the committee he still chairs. Testifying before his Senate Foreign Relations panel, Kerry sidestepped a question about his views on the controversial $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline project. But he jumped at a chance to swat down a Republican senator who declared carbon constraints a threat to the U.S. economy, and he defended...
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Paper: Environmentalists to blame for climate change inaction
2013-01-16 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Caller: Global warming protesters met by freezing weather and snow Environmentalists, Democrats say climate report demands swift action on climate change Environmental groups urge Obama to use executive authority to fight climate change Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues A Harvard academic paper argues that environmental groups are to blame for the United States` inaction in combating climate change, saying that those groups underestimated Republican opposition. Harvard scholar Theda...
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