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Nate Silver Promises Run Rebuttal To Heavily Criticized Climate Change Piece
2014-03-28 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TPM: FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver said Friday that his newly re-launched site will commission a response to an article on disasters and climate change that has come under widespread scrutiny. The piece, written by Roger Pielke Jr. under the headline "Disasters Cost More Than Ever -- But Not Because of Climate Change," has drawn negative responses from The Guardian, ThinkProgress and Paul Krugman. "When you read that the cost of disasters is increasing, its tempting to think that it must...
First Package of Delegated Acts for Ag Policy Reform Criticized
2014-03-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - Copa-Cogeca has criticised the first package of delegated acts for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform approved by the EU Commission this week, warning it will make it difficult for farmers to implement.
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Russian enviro who criticized Olympics sentenced 3 years of forced labor
2014-02-15 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: An activist who coauthored a report cataloging the appalling environmental damage wreaked by Olympic construction will spend the next three years in a Russian penal colony. Yevgeny Vitishko, a 40-year-old scientist, is ostensibly being punished for the crimes of spray-painting a fence and swearing in public. Vitishko was among seven members of Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus detained on the eve of the Olympics. An appeal of the decision to jail him for three years was rejected during...
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Mitch McConnell criticized for taking money from firm tied to health website
2013-11-15 02:41:04| Beverages - Topix.net
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and its glitch-stricken website, HealthCare.gov, repeatedly calling for repeal of the law "root and branch."
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Japan set to be criticized for 2020 emissions target
2013-11-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: The government has set a target of 2020 greenhouse gas emissions at 3.8 percent lower than 2005 levels, sources said, noting that the figure is still more than 3 percent higher than 1990 levels. It is likely to be criticized by the international community. The figure was agreed to during a Nov. 6 meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara. It reflects a sense that Japan may not be able to depend on nuclear power--a clean form of energy--in the future...
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