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Climate scientists' biggest challenge isn't scientific
2014-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: On Tuesday, I asked why Republicans are so much less likely than Democrats to worry about climate change, and wondered if the answer wasn't an aversion to more government spending and regulation. Readers, or at least those who wrote the 1,800 or so comments on the piece, felt differently. The argument that many of them offered -- that man-made climate change is some sort of hoax, perpetuated by scientists looking for research money -- deserves consideration, because it underlines what makes the...
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Courageous Women Challenge Climate Change And Global Warming Goliaths Say Friends Of Science
2014-02-14 04:31:18| pollutiononline News Articles
“Judith Curry’s January 16, 2014 testimony to theUS Senate, reviewing the President’s Climate Action Plan and global warming theory, is a model of sheer courage, backed up by solid scientific evidence,” says Ken Gregory, research director of Friends of Science
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King Coal's climate challenge
2013-12-04 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Prague Post: Coal is emerging as a major topic of conversation at the United Nations climate-change negotiations currently taking place in Warsaw - and rightly so. Indeed, it is a discussion that the world needs to have. The latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclude that we are quickly using up our carbon "budget" - the amount of carbon that we can afford to emit while still having a good chance of limiting global warming to 2 Celsius. According to the IPCC, keeping the global...
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Australia: Climate change looms as challenge for all parties
2013-08-26 04:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Three years ago then-prime minister Julia Gillard promised there would not be a carbon tax under a government she led. After the 2010 federal election resulted in a hung Parliament, Ms Gillard signed an agreement with the Greens to introduce a price on carbon from 2015, with a transitional period of a fixed carbon tax. Backtracking on her campaign promise fatally undermined Ms Gillard's leadership and the standing of her government. Trust is the currency of politics and once spent can never...
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Climate change major challenge for Pacific
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Climate change is one of the greatest barriers to sustainable development for small island countries, a Fijian official said Wednesday. Esala Nayasi, director of the political and treaties division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the adverse effects of climate change is a security threat to Pacific island countries ( PICs) as it greatly affects the survival of people through the impact it has on resources. Speaking at the "First Open Discussion Workshop about Climate Engineering: Perspectives...
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