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Turning up the heat: Manitoba caught climate change crosshairs
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winnipeg Free Press: Ask Danny Blair what really keeps Prairie climate experts such as himself up at night and watch him run through a long list of looming calamities to settle on one. Drought. "If you thought the Dirty Thirties were bad," he said, "get ready for some really long, intense droughts." After a terrible winter and four massive floods in a decade, Manitoba is already starting to get a taste of the extreme weather that's a hallmark of climate change. But in the absence of any global commitment to...
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Australia: Climate scientists in audit commission's crosshairs
2014-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SMH: The nation`s climate and weather predicting capacity and the jobs of dozens of scientists are at risk if the Abbott government accepts a recommendation of the National Commission of Audit to axe a key program, researchers said. The Australian Climate Change Science Program`s four-year funding of $31.6 million, mostly to the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, duplicates work by those and other agencies and "should be returned to the budget or allocated to priority areas", the commission said...
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In decline, coal in crosshairs in Virginia governor's race
2013-10-06 15:35:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Coal has emerged as a defining issue in the race for Virginia's governor, and the stark divide between Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe has grown wider with the release of new federal pollution limits on coal-fired power plants. The political debate centers on potential job losses southwest Virginia's coal industry would sustain under the proposed pollution guidelines. Cuccinelli contends that McAuliffe is complicit with the Obama administration's proposed regulations, which...
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Google back in UK crosshairs over tax issues
2013-05-01 15:18:00| CNET News.com
The company claims that it does not sell to UK customers from the country, but a parliament committee wants to make sure that's really true. [Read more]
EU puts Huawei, ZTE in crosshairs, but who will help?
2013-04-17 16:59:42| CNET News.com
The European Union's trade chief would like to go after China-based companies Huawei and ZTE, but firms that would back the effort have shied away from helping the commission. [Read more]