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Obama says climate change deniers ignoring science
2014-06-14 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action on global warming to Saturday's graduates of the University of California, Irvine. Obama issued a call to action to the tens of thousands gathered at Angel Stadium even though he said Congress "is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence" and say climate change is a hoax or fad. "Many others duck the question by saying, 'Hey, I'm not...
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07.08: Science Fiction Book Group
2014-06-13 18:39:14| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month we meet to discuss The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Join us!
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UNs zero draft of SDGs 'is vague on boosting science'
2014-06-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The recent 'zero draft' of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) document directly references the need to improve science and technology skills and capacity in developing countries, with developing country delegates to the UN hoping that those will not be sidelined or weakened in subsequent negotiations. The Open Working Group tasked with drafting the goals after an agreement to launch the SDG process at the Rio+20 summit, in 2012, will meet again in June and July before presenting the...
Why David Brat is completely wrong climate science
2014-06-12 00:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: David Brat, the Virginia economics professor and Tea Partier who just beat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary, is a staunch libertarian. And these days, that doesn`t just mean thinking the free market should run most things, from the energy sector to health care. It also often means denying the reality of global warming. In a recent campaign event video (which has since been made private), Brat explains his free-marketeer perspective on environmental and energy problems....
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Making science cool won't win over the denialists
2014-06-09 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: SCIENTISTS have long had cause to complain about how the public views them and their work. Complaints range from objections to denialism "they don't accept evolution" or "they won't vaccinate" to more cultural laments: "they always make us look like the bad guys in films" and "they don't cover us on the news any more". Lately, though, the cultural laments seem out of date. In the US, science is becoming cool again among non-scientists. The evidence is all around us, in the form of a popular...
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