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Fault Lines in Views On Climate Change Revealed: Divided by Cause, United by Effect
2013-02-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change is a hotly debated issue, but a new study published by a University of Alberta researcher notes that geoscientists and engineers also become embroiled in the issue -- and for some, it can get surprisingly personal. Lianne Lefsrud, a PhD student in the Alberta School of Business, surveyed the membership of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta regarding their beliefs on climate change and its causes, and on where responsibility for change rests. The...
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Views on Climate Change Swayed By Weather
2013-01-25 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Independent voters shift their views on climate change with the weather, new research suggests. During cold snaps, Independents tend to be more skeptical of human-caused global warming than they are on unseasonably warm days, which seem to make them believers, according to a study published in the journal Weather, Climate, and Society. Democrats and Republicans stuck to their climate-change beliefs regardless of short-term weather changes. "Independent voters were less likely to believe that...
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Gartner, Ovum offer mixed views on state of 'big data' hype
2013-01-23 23:27:52| InfoWorld: Top News
The 'big data' buzzword and industry trend had a pretty good year perception-wise in 2012, but the hype may soon fade into a period of disillusionment among users, according to analyst firms Ovum and Gartner. Big data refers to the ever-larger amounts of information being generated by social media, sensors, and other sources, as well as the growing range of tools such as Hadoop that are used to process it for business insights.
Higher revenue boosts Capital One Financial 4Q net, shares drop as results miss Street views
2013-01-18 04:41:50| IT Services - Topix.net
Capital One Financial Corp. says its fourth-quarter net income grew more than twofold, as revenue for the lender rose by 38 per cent from a year earlier.
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Australia: Spooner's views on climate change are far from weathertight
2013-01-06 15:36:39| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Age: JOHN Spooner's opinion article "Sceptics weather the storm to put their case on climate" published in The Age on December 29, 2012 confirms that he is not qualified to comment on global warming. By comparing the judicial system to scientific methodology, Spooner shows little understanding of either. Scientific method is a worldwide collaborative enterprise aimed at discovering the truth about us and the world we live in. It relies on posing testable hypotheses, collecting and analysing relevant...
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