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Bernie Sanders's Climate Change Activists Are Losing Hope
2016-07-06 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Bernie Sanders's Climate Change Activists Are Losing Hope Greens hoping to change the Democratic Party platform are conflicted over incremental change versus urgent and drastic action. This story was originally published by New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shame on you. Shame! The shout rang out from the audience as the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention voted in late June. The room in St. Louis, Missouri, was so quiet...
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One of earth's most-loved species is at risk from climate change
2016-07-06 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Market Watch: Adélie Penguins, the small, flightless birds found along the Antartic coast, are gradually losing their home to climate change, according to a new report. About a third of current Adélie penguin colonies, which is about 20% of their overall population, may be in decline by 2060, according to a study published in Scientific Reports, part of the Nature journal. The direct or indirect effects of this warming are detrimental to Adélie penguin populations and could lead to population declines at...
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Why the 'We're All Responsible' Line is a Climate Change Cop-Out
2016-07-06 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desmog: To no ones surprise, theres been an awfully wide range of responses to what caused the catastrophic Fort McMurray wildfires. Some blame climate change. Others peg it on the El Nio and forest management techniques. Still more suggest that nows simply not the time to be having such a conversation. But the one thing that appears to unite all sides is our alleged complicity in it as North American consumers. For instance, the National Posts Jen Gerson argued in a May 5 piece: We are...
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Focus: Nuke plan diverts billions from climate change
2016-07-06 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sandiego Union Tribune: Last month, Californias largest utility unveiled a deal with environmental groups to scrap Diablo Canyon, the states last nuclear power plant, by 2025. Regulators may get details later this month. The idea seems absurd, given the states campaign to combat climate change. Replacing the nukes output -- cheap, zero-carbon power for 1.7 million homes -- can only hurt the planet, as well as cost consumers billions of dollars that could otherwise go toward displacing fossil fuels. So the only...
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UK climate adviser warns of far right attacks after Brexit
2016-07-06 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Head of UK Committee on Climate Change criticises Brexit backers, suggesting they will seek to undermine green regulations Sinister right wing forces are set on crushing UK environmental laws, the countrys top climate change advisor told a meeting of business leaders in London on Wednesday. Lord Deben said the Brexit vote on 23 June had empowered what he termed an unpleasant group of politicians who saw it as a first step to cutting green regulations. We will be faced by a concerted...
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