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United Kingdom: A Closer Look at a Shift in Britain's Near-Term Global Warming Forecast
2013-01-09 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Quite a few professional climate skeptics have been crowing in the last few days about a 20-percent downward shift in the short-term forecast for global temperature (through 2017) from Britain`s weather and climate agency, best know as the Met Office. Here are the graphs showing the change, with the first published in 2011 (see the related release here, thanks to Leo Hickman of the Guardian) and the next one from late last month: Met Office This was the 2011 forecast from Britain`s climate agency...
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EPA head calls climate-change shift a proud milestone
2013-01-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: As she prepares to step down from her position as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson said she is proudest of presiding over the landmark finding that climate-changing greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. "Americans are back to believing that something is happening with our climate and that mankind has a role to play in that. These are not natural phenomena," said Jackson in her first newspaper interview since announcing on Dec. 27 that she would...
Auto sales shift into higher gear
2013-01-04 23:44:12| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
An improving economy, freer-flowing loans and a pent-up demand for more fuel-efficient, tech-savvy vehicles to replace old clunkers drove Americans to buy more new cars and trucks in 2012 than they had since 2007.
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