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Don't underestimate rightwing desperation in media attacks on greens
2014-08-28 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The gloves are off. In recent days, a sustained attack on environmentalism has been mounted in the UK media. The Times, the Telegraph and the Financial Times have all run articles by influential journalists blaming the environment community for our current woes. In the Financial Times, John Kay blamed environmentalist's malign influence on procrastinating politicians for the risk that the lights will go out. In the Telegraph a fawning interview of Nigel Lawson by Cristina Odone saw him accusing...
FCC eyes changes to online video clips, businesses say don't 'underestimate the difficulty'
2014-07-06 16:30:56| Telecom - Topix.net
March 14, 2013: In this file photo, Alexis Maldonado works in a 5th grade computer lab at Van Buren Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Models 'grossly underestimate' costs of global warming, Nicholas Stern says
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Nicholas Stern says climate change costs aren't properly captured by models. Existing economic models "grossly underestimate" the costs of global warming, undermining the urgency for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new paper by leading UK climate change economist Lord Nicholas Stern. The risks are in fact likely to be so large that a globally coordinated carbon price of $US32-$US103 ($34-$110) per tonne of emissions is needed as soon as 2015 to prevent the temperature...
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AUDIO: Buyers 'underestimate' mortgage costs
2014-06-06 13:27:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Homebuyers are "severely overestimating" their ability to repay their mortgage, according to Experian.
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Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture
2013-12-09 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Analysis of forest cover using medium-scale satellite imagery may miss deforestation for small-scale subsistence agriculture, finds a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and Woods Hole Research Center, is based on change in forest cover in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accounts for the bulk of the world's second largest tropical rainforest. The researchers...
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