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Leonardo DiCaprio addresses world leaders on climate change: 'The world is watching'
2016-04-23 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Leonardo DiCaprio has told leaders "the world is watching" as they sign an historic agreement to combat climate change. The actor, who used his Oscar acceptance speech in February to highlight the seriousness of climate change, addressed world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York before they signed the Paris Agreement, a treaty which requires them to cut carbon emissions. "Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong," DiCaprio said. "After...
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Climate change: Malaysia takes lead in cutting carbon
2016-04-23 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Melaka, a popular tourist destination, is one of the smallest states in Malaysia and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is also no stranger to population growth and urban development. But all that comes at a price. For Melaka, the result is an increase in pollution. For years, there has been construction along the banks of the River Melaka. In addition, rubbish and raw untreated sewage were poured into it. Heavily polluted, it took 15 years of investment and cost $107m to clean up the waterway....
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Palestine is latest GOP offensive in climate change wars
2016-04-23 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Senate Republicans think theyve found a powerful way to hobble President Obama's participation in international climate diplomacy through the decades old Israel-Palestine conflict. More than two dozen GOP senators told the Obama administration this week it has to cut off the hundreds of millions in contributions to the United Nations Green Climate Fund. They are also demanding that the administration cut off its $10 million annual contribution to the UNs Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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Scientific silencers on left are trying to shut down climate skepticism
2016-04-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit. Progressivisms determination to regulate thought by regulating speech is apparent in the campaign by 16 states attorneys general and those of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, none Republican, to criminalize skepticism about the supposedly settled conclusions of climate science. Four core tenets of progressivism are: First, history has a destination. Second, progressives uniquely discern it. (Barack Obama...
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World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony
2016-04-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 170 governments declared an end to the fossil fuel era on Friday, using the signing ceremony for the landmark Paris agreement as an occasion to renew their vows to fight climate change. The outpouring of support the largest ever single-day turn-out for a signing ceremony underscored strong international commitment to deliver on the promises made in Paris last December to avoid a climate catastrophe, the leaders said. There is no turning back, François Hollande, the French president,...
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