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World leaders missed chance to tackle climate change, says economist
2015-05-25 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders missed the perfect opportunity to tackle climate change during the global economic crisis, according to the influential economist and academic Lord Stern. The author of the seminal 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change also criticised what he called a strange and anti-science wing of the Conservative party for putting the brakes on their leaders making progress on the issue in the UK. Stern told an audience at the Hay festival the economic and technological conditions...
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Australia: Great Barrier Reef's 'single biggest risk' climate change
2015-05-25 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Review: The chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, says climate change posed the biggest risk to the long-term future of the reef but said he believed there was enough government funding at the moment to tackle the problem. Just days before UNESCO will make its decision on whether the Great Barrier Reef will be placed on the "endangered" list, Dr Reichelt said he was encouraged by the $140 million in extra funding from the federal government to improve water quality...
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John McCain mocks Obama for calling climate change a threat as Isis advances
2015-05-24 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Senator John McCain on Sunday attacked the president for citing climate change as a threat to national security, suggesting that the Obama administrations focus on environmental issues was detracting from the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. The comments by the Senate armed services committee chairman were part of a rotating blame game over the Memorial Day weekend about who is responsible for recent gains by Isis fighters, who last week took control of the ancient Syrian...
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Growth at all costs: climate change, fossil fuel subsidies &Treasury
2015-05-24 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There are no oil rigs visible from Aberdeen itself, but evidence of the foundations of Europes oil capital is easy to see: plaques for the head offices of major fossil fuel companies, helicopters ferrying workers to and from offshore platforms, designer shops for a city that has more millionaires than any other in the UK. It is not far from the centre of the granite city to the poorer wards, though, where like so many places, people struggling to pay ever-increasing energy bills are still forced...
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Catholics Organize to Promote Pope's Climate Change Message
2015-05-24 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: There will be prayer vigils and pilgrimages, policy briefings and seminars, and sermons in parishes from the U.S. to the Philippines. When Pope Francis releases his much-anticipated teaching document on the environment and climate change in the coming weeks, a network of Roman Catholics will be ready. These environmental advocates who work with bishops, religious orders, Catholic universities and lay movements have been preparing for months to help maximize the effect of the statement, hoping...
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