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New documentary recounts bizarre climate changes seen by Inuit elders
2015-11-22 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Even stranger is the fact that the sun now appears to set many kilometres off its usual point on the horizon, and the stars are no longer where they should be. Is the Earth shifting on its axis, causing the very look of the sun and stars to change? These are the drastic conditions Northern Canadians, whose lives depend from childhood on their knowledge of the most minute details of the Arctic land and skies, say they see all around them. These observations by Inuit elders are detailed in a groundbreaking...
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Climate change is world's most pressing problem
2015-11-22 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Oregonian: In 2001, Linfield College hosted F. Sherwood Rowland, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina for their discovery of the chemistry underlying depletion of stratospheric ozone. Sherry Rowland told me that I should develop a course aimed at students majoring in areas outside the sciences, teaching them about stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming. I've been teaching that course nearly every year since then. My students and I have come to conclusions...
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Oakland: Hundreds rally for global action climate change
2015-11-22 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Contra Costa Times: Ilsa Hadda drove -- which might not seem very green -- to a march and rally that highlighted the dangers of carbon emissions and demanded global action on climate change. But at age 91 and needing a cane, Hadda felt she had no choice if she wanted to join others Saturday at the demonstration that called on the world's leaders to do more to promote clean, renewable energy. "It's very important," said Hadda, who lives in Berkeley. "We want to be able to breathe and harvest our own food and live...
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Paris climate talks: Six years on, climate change is killing fish, flooding our fields
2015-11-22 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: They are humanitys hope for tomorrow, but each faces a future that looks increasing bleak and uncertain. Born in four different parts of the globe, these children came into the world in the weeks leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. At the time, the Observer described the lives of these young people as their families struggled to cope with the impact of climate change. Now, before the Paris climate summit at the end of the month, we have returned to meet those...
Paris climate change talks 'will provide false dawn in UK's contribution', warns Labour frontbencher
2015-11-22 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A week before the long awaited talks on climate change, a Labour frontbencher has expressed concerns that the Paris conference will provide a false dawn in Britains contribution to combating global warming. Lisa Nandy, the shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, told The Independent on Sunday: I think David Cameron will be very conscious that he has to stand on the world stage and say the right things, but Im really worried about what will happen after Paris. She said she believed...
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