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Senator Markey investigating 'denial for hire scheme' over climate change
2015-02-24 05:30:57| Chemicals - Topix.net
Documents have surfaced showing that the study of fossil fuel has taken in funds of $1.2 million by a scientist that is affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is a man who denies any sort of climate change theories. Greenpeace was behind the garnering of documents through the Freedom of Information Act.
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Q&A: Sen. Ed Markey On Protecting Data Our Cars Are Sharing
2015-02-10 00:29:38| Automakers - Topix.net
Cars and trucks today are computers, and a new report overseen by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., comes with a warning: As more vehicles have wireless connections, the data stored in them is vulnerable to stealing, hacking and the same invasions faced by any technical system today. automakers, including Ford, Toyota and General Motors, asking what the companies were doing to secure the technology in their vehicles from cyberattack and how they manage personal data stored in cars.
MA-Sen: Ed Markey (D) Calls Out Climate Denying Kochs, Pushes For Action On Climate Change
2014-04-22 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: Today is the 44th annual Earth Day -- a day when we take time to acknowledge all the work weve done to leave the planet in a better condition than we inherited it, and remember how much work we have to do. Our planet has a fever. A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that climate change is happening, that man-made factors are now the primary driver of it, and that if we dont take action soon, our window to reverse the effects of climate change will slam...
Markey compares climate change to steroids in baseball
2014-03-11 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) used a chart showing that the number of home runs increased when players used steroid, saying its the same case with temperatures rising when humans emit greenhouse gases. Something very funny happened in baseball because from 1920 all the way through the entire modern baseball history, the average number of players that hit more than 41 home runs in a season was three players, Markey said Monday night. All of the sudden 17 players could hit more than 41 home runs....
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Ed Markey, Climate Hawk, Headed for the Senate
2013-06-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Rep. Ed Markey, who pushed climate action and clean energy during 37 years in the U.S. House, is now on his way to the U.S. Senate. As expected, he handily beat Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election to replace now-Secretary of State John Kerry. With more than 90 percent of the vote counted on Tuesday night, Markey was up 54 to 46 percent. Backers of Gomez had been hoping for a repeat of Scott Browns 2010 special-election upset, but conditions were different...
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