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UK climate change sceptics botch Paris deal hit-job
2016-07-05 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Critics of the UK`s climate policy sense a window of opportunity post Brexit, but an inability to download the right PDF is hampering their hopes Lord Lawson, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation In prayer, deep thought or perhaps deep sleep, the Right Reverend Dr Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester sat unmoving, eyes closed. Two seats away, a rather nervous and red-faced law professor held court in committee room 2, a high ceilinged room in Britains parliament with views over...
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Kofi Annan: We must challenge climate-change sceptics who deny facts
2015-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Whats your greatest fear for the future of our planet? That the world is reaching the tipping point beyond which climate change may become irreversible. If this happens, we risk denying present and future generations the right to a healthy and sustainable planet the whole of humanity stands to lose. On the other hand, climate change is an unprecedented opportunity for governments, investors, firms and citizens to work together to develop and deploy low-carbon technologies, which can sustain...
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Head EPA hopes Pope Francis will convince sceptics over climate change
2015-01-30 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday she hoped Pope Franciss forthcoming message to his flock on the environment would help galvanise concern about climate change and convince sceptics that the science is real. The EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, visiting the Vatican to discuss climate change, said President Barack Obama shared the popes belief that it was a moral issue because its effects would be felt most by the poorest and weakest nations. The pope knows...
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Science won't win over the climate change sceptics - we need stories
2014-12-02 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This week marks the five year anniversary of climategate, a rather grandiose title given to the theft and online publication of controversial email correspondence between climate scientists in November 2009. Since this date, no fewer than six separate inquiries have rejected claims by climate sceptics that the emails contained evidence of scientists manipulating data. But if youre scratching your head trying to remember exactly where you were when this momentous event took place, you are in...
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Climate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail
2014-10-27 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Proof that professional climate sceptics swim in a narrow, shallow pond was provided last month in Chicago at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change. It turned out to be less Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, more Two Degrees of Lord Monckton. But this month is set to provide further proof that it doesn't take a particularly complex Venn diagram to map the interconnections between the various movers and shakers in the sceptic camp. On 11 June, in Orlando, Florida,...
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