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Climate Change Deniers Should Be Punished, Says Al Gore
2015-03-17 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Climate change deniers should be punished in the eyes of former Vice President Al Gore, saying Friday that politicians who reject "accepted science" should pay the price for their ignorance. Gore, an active environmental activist, spoke out about the current climate crisis at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, pointing out that many smart investors are increasingly focusing on renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels - a practice notorious for generating heat-trapping...
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Obama gets real about climate deniers with Vice
2015-03-17 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Barack Obama told Vice in an interview released on Monday that it was "disturbing" that the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works denied the existence of climate change. Obama was referring to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who threw a snowball on the Senate floor earlier this month to make his case that climate change isn`t real. Even though Inhofe cited record-low temperatures across the country as evidence that climate change was overplayed, the country has actually...
Sen Whitehouse Calls Out ALEC for Role in Funding Climate Deniers
2015-03-13 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Despite the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in helping billionaires, Big Oil, Coal, Tobacco, the gun lobby and other dubious corporate interests to infiltrate our state lawmaking processes, its not every day you hear U.S. Senators name-drop ALEC during hearings. This week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took a swing at ALECs role in helping the fossil fuel lobby deny the science of climate change, during his weekly Time to Wake Up speech in the Senate. This comes at...
'Merchants Of Doubt' Explores Work Climate Change Deniers
2015-03-06 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And let's listen to some voices of climate change skeptics. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MERCHANTS OF DOUBT") UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Climate is changing naturally. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: It has to do with sunspots, and it has to do with the wobble of the earth. BLOCK: These are voices from the fossil fuel industry and the industry of advocates who speak for them. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MERCHANTS OF DOUBT") UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: We need more data. The science isn't there...
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HBOs Award-Winning VICE Exposes Climate Deniers and the Dire Consequences of Sea Level Rise
2015-03-06 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The third season of the Emmy-winning news series VICE debuts today at 11 p.m. on HBO. The first episode covers the pressing issue of sea level rise. VICE Media founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and see how the continent is melting. Then, the VICE crew heads to Bangladesh to capture the impacts of rising sea levels on this South Asian country. From the UN Climate conference to the Peoples Climate March to the...
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