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Fact-checkers rip Obama group's claim on climate change 'hoax' vote
2013-05-04 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- namely, because they didn't. The video from Organizing for Action cleverly splices together quotes from Republican climate change skeptics while building up to the factoid about the vote, which was on an amendment to a broader bill in 2011. The video then includes the following text: "Number of House members who voted in 2011 that...
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Obama campaign calls out 'climate deniers' as US cities ditch dirty investments
2013-04-26 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The campaign to make climate policy a central plank of President Obama's second term cranked up a notch this week, with the launch of a new push to embarrass Republicans over their climate scepticism and an important victory for the high profile 350.org campaign group. The Organizing for Action (OFA) campaign group, which was formed to support the President's re-election campaign, yesterday made one of its most significant interventions since the election, with the launch of a new campaign urging...
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Obama campaign launches plan to shame climate sceptics in Congress
2013-04-25 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The campaign group formed to support Barack Obama's political agenda has launched an initiative to shame members of Congress who deny the science behind climate change. In an email to supporters on Thursday, Organizing for Action said it was time to call out members of Congress who deny the existence of climate change, saying they had blocked efforts to avoid its most catastrophic consequences. The email linked to a video mocking Republicans who reject the science on climate change. "Right...
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Obama Talks 'Climate Change' with UN Secretary General
2013-04-11 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weekly Standard: President Barack Obama talked about "climate change" with the U.N. secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, today at the White House. Via the pool report: On North Korea: We will continue to try to work to resolve some of those issues diplomatically even as I indicated to the Secretary General that the United States will take all necessary steps to protect its people and to meet our obligations under our alliances in the region. Obama said they talked about Middle East peace, where there is at least...
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Olympians to Obama: climate change is jeopardising winter sports' survival
2013-04-09 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Olympic medallists in snowboarding and skiing have called on Barack Obama on to save winter sports by taking ambitious measures against climate change. In a letter to the White House, 75 champions, including pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Olympians Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Jacobellis said a run of record warm years and sporadic snowfalls jeopardised the survival of their sports and a winter tourism industry worth $12bn a year. "As professional athletes, representing a community of 23 million...
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