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Climate change: how businesses can deal America's most divisive issue
2014-06-12 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. Radical religion-fueled vigilantes have bombed abortion clinics and stalked and killed the doctors who perform them. But it's not gun rights or abortion that has Democrats and Republicans most at odds today it's the science of climate change. This is sort of an ideal wedge issue, and its been exploited that way, said Lawrence Hamilton, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who specializes in the study...
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Tony Abbott prepares for Barack Obama meeting saying climate change 'not most important issue'
2014-06-12 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: This time tomorrow, Tony Abbott will be preparing for his Oval Office meeting with President Obama and the gulf between the two leaders on climate change has never been wider. On his way to Washington, Tony Abbott announced an alliance with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push back against using carbon trading schemes to tackle climate change, while President Obama at the same time was calling climate change perhaps the most significant long-term challenge facing...
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Global Defence Technology: Issue 40
2014-06-11 10:25:00| Naval Technology
In this issue: The Royal Navy's Merlin makeover, the future of Phantom Eye in the UAV market, how simulation villages are creating realistic training scenarios from around the world, a new chapter for the US Marines and more
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Colorado Oil and Gas Association rejects latest Hickenlooper compromise on local control issue
2014-06-11 04:52:39| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Broad support from the energy industry for the latest proposal by Gov. John Hickenlooper to give local governments more control over oil and gas drilling and head off potentially devastating ballot issues this fall appears to be evaporating.
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Climate unity dealt blow as Australia and Canada take issue with US stance
2014-06-10 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian and Canadian prime ministers have suggested that economic growth is more important than tackling climate change, playing down the prospects of strong co-ordinated global action. Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper indicated during a joint media conference in Ottawa that they felt no additional pressure to address climate change as a result of the US president Barack Obama's new package to reduce emissions. Reflecting pessimism about the likelihood of ambitious co-ordinated global...
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