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Green Party candidate Jill Stein arrested at Texas Keystone XL blockade
Citing media reports about the connection between climate change and Hurricane Sandy, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested on Wednesday while attempting to deliver supplies to activists in Texas who’re camping in trees to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. “Everyone needs to step up resistance to…
Sandy puts climate change back on the election agenda
The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy’s wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Campaigners said the devastating storm could turn out to be the October Surprise of…
Chris Matthews calls climate change deniers ‘pigs’
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” said that Hurricane Sandy is proof that climate change is real and called its deniers “pigs” in a highly charged segment on Tuesday. President Clinton, Matthews said, was the first major public figure to call attention to Romney’s stance on climate change in the…
Cenk Uygur calls New York media out for ignoring climate change
Current TV host Cenk Uygur said Tuesday he hoped the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy shook the New York-based national media out of its complacency regarding climate change. “If tornadoes hit you in the Midwest, well, they didn’t see it,” Uygur said on The Young Turks. “If hurricanes hit you…
Gov. Malloy: Infrastructure needs to be hardened for climate change
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) on Tuesday night said the United States needed to rebuild its infrastructure to protect against extreme weather caused by climate change. “Number one, I have been talking about climate change since 1997,” he told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “It’s happened. It’s alive and well in…
Link between cyclones and climate change unclear: scientists
PARIS — Was Hurricane Sandy caused by climate change? This was the contention Tuesday of Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, which bore the brunt of the superstorm. “Anyone who thinks there isn’t a change in weather patterns is denying reality,” he said. Many climate scientists would agree with…
UN pinpoints climate-linked health risks
GENEVA — Two UN agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance warnings and act to prevent “climate-sensitive” diseases from spreading. The World Metrological Organization and the World Health Organization presented their first joint…
Climate change may be changing amphibian evolution
Disruptions in global weather patterns may be forcing some species to adapt to new conditions or face extinction. Science Daily is reporting that research on some species of amphibians suggests that animals are being forced to alter their patterns of mating and producing young in order to keep up with…
Climate scientist sues The National Review for defamation
Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing him to the convicted sex offender and disgraced football coach Jerry Sandusky and accusing him of academic fraud. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, announced the defamation…
Re-insurer: Climate change played a role in natural disaster spike
Climate change played a role in a nearly five-fold jump in weather-related natural disasters in North America over the last 30 years, Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, said on Wednesday. North America saw the world’s biggest increase in natural catastrophes between 1980 and 2011, ahead of Asia which had…
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