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Co-op takeover deals 'destructive'
2014-03-14 14:54:09| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lord Myner's review of the Co-operative Group has found it spent too much time on takeover deals that proved "breathtakingly value-destructive."
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Why South's winter storm was so destructive
2014-02-14 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A treacherous winter storm that is sweeping across the southeastern United States has dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain over a region stretching from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Carolinas. As the storm moves into the Northeast, the icy blast is leaving a trail of destruction, with downed trees and power lines leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power in parts of Georgia and South Carolina. As of Feb. 13, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported about an inch of ice accumulation...
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U.S. shouldn't be enabling a destructive industry
2014-02-08 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal-Sentinel: The long-awaited State Department report on the environmental impacts of TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline makes a dubious justification for its construction: The oil is going to flow in any case, so it won't add to carbon emissions from Alberta's oil sands industry. Through this extremely narrow lens, that may be true. The commitment on the part of the Canadian government to fully exploit the sands will go on whether or not this pipeline is built as long as so many are willing to enable it....
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Flood Forensics: Why Colorado's Floods Were So Destructive
2013-10-08 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Parts of Colorado are still drying out after floods hit the state last month. Eight people died, and damage from the worst flooding in decades is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Scientists are now venturing into the hardest-hit areas to do a sort of "flood forensics" to understand why the floods were so bad. Geologist Jonathan Godt takes Peak Highway in northern Colorado up into the Rockies. The road there winds past ravines and streams where water is still rushing. Front-end loaders are...
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Hurricane Isabel, 10 years later: Climate change increasing chances of more destructive hurricanes
2013-09-15 15:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Dispatch: If you pick enough cards, you will draw an ace. And if you endure enough hurricanes, you will suffer a really bad one. Climate change, however, is loading the deck, many experts say. You cant say for sure that Hurricane Sandy in 2012 or Hurricane Isabel in 2003 were caused by our warming climate. Destructive storms can happen naturally, just as you can draw an ace from a normal deck. But climate change is increasing the probability that a storm will be big, according to experts such...
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