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Obama Climate Change: Why the President's Promises Are Just Rhetoric

2013-06-24 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Policymic: President Barack Obama made headlines upon declaring, "we've got to do something about climate change," during his State of the Union address on February. With a majority of Americans expressing support for planning the impacts of climate change and global warming, as well as the funding of additional studies into increasing clean energy resources and reducing pollution, such as the 2012 study by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication:...

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Senegal: Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?

2013-06-16 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Like most people living along the Sahel the drylands between Africas tropical savannahs and the Sahara Desert Mustafa Ba is all too familiar with the effects of desertification. Thanks to a combination of overgrazing and deforestation, he has watched the countryside around his Senegalese village, Mboula, turn into a dusty, unproductive wasteland. Trees provide us with many benefits, explains Mustafa, as we sit on a mat in the centre of his village. They are good for the soil and important...

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Jerry Brown Fails to Live Up to Rhetoric

2013-05-29 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

East Bay Express: During a major speech on climate change last week, Governor Jerry Brown warned that the planet is quickly approaching a point of no return. If we don't act fast to reduce greenhouse gases, he said, "five years from now, it's over." The Oakland Tribune reported that Brown issued his dire warnings at a technology summit in the Silicon Valley, which also featured a "call to action" report on global warming signed by more than five hundred scientists. Yet despite the governor's tough talk, several environmental...

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Identity, minority officials blast Jackson's rhetoric

2013-05-23 10:29:13| Paper - Topix.net

African American officials in the Virginia Democratic Party are teeing off on E.W. Jackson , the Chesapeake faith leader and Republican lieutenant governor nominee , for promoting what they call political hate speech against fellow blacks in the guise of religion.

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