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Canada: Saskatoon hosts climate change hearings
2013-11-03 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: The Saskatchewan Citizens Hearings on Climate Change was held at the Refinery Arts Centre in Saskatoon on Saturday. High-profile speakers from the U.S. and Germany gave keynote presentations. Organizers say politicians in Saskatchewan arent doing enough to prevent climate change. "If you`re not prepared to listen to the science, I don`t know what to say except, at the moment, 97 per cent of scientific papers that are relevant to the subject are saying -- 'this is what is happening,"...
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Leaked Climate Change Report Predicts Violent, Poorer, Sicker Future
2013-11-02 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global warming is already affecting the way people live and what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income. A leaked copy of a...
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NSA: Australia & US used climate change conference to spy on Indonesia
2013-11-02 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australian spy agency the Defence Signals Directorate worked alongside America's National Security Agency in mounting a massive surveillance operation on Indonesia during the United Nations climate change conference in Bali in 2007. The newly-elected prime minister Kevin Rudd was making his first high-profile international foray at the conference, at the personal invitation of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. A new document from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals the intelligence...
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Tea party Republicans are biggest climate change deniers, new Pew poll finds
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Tea party Republicans are now the only group of Americans who think the Earth is not warming, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, with just 25 percent of tea party Republicans saying global warming is happening. By contrast, 67 percent of all Americans say there is evidence climate change is underway, including 61 percent of non-tea party Republicans. Democrats and independents are more confident about global warming: 88 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents say there...
Obama takes control of climate change policies with executive order that will bypass Congress
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Obama used his executive powers on Friday to create a 'Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience.' Obama's plan would be put in place through executive order, bypassing Congress, which has stalemated over climate legislation in recent years. A year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, the President signed the order which is designed to make it easier for states and local governments to respond to weather disasters. Trick or treat? President Barack Obama and...
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