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Barack Obama 'seriously considering' hosting climate summit
2013-01-09 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama may intervene directly on climate change by hosting a summit at the White House early in his second term, environmental groups say. They say the White House has given encouraging signals to a proposal for Obama to use the broad-based and bipartisan summit to launch a national climate action strategy. "What we talked about with the White House is using it as catalyst not just for the development of a national strategy but for mobilising people all over the country at every level,"...
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Our protest must shortcircuit the fossil fuel interests blocking Barack Obama
2013-01-06 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there's a problem. That's because, in a country as big as the United States, public opinion moves in slow currents. Since change by definition requires going up against powerful established interests, it can take decades for those currents to erode the foundations of our special-interest fortresses. Take, for instance, "the problem of our schools". Don't worry about whether there actually was a problem, or whether...
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