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Naomi Klein fails to recognise offset challenges

2013-09-26 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Offsetting the practice of paying others to reduce their emissions for you is the world's best first step in tackling collective inaction on climate change. This view contradicts what is often expressed in these pages, most recently by my compatriot Naomi Klein in her criticisms of green groups. But it reflects one simple truth: the Earth's atmosphere is agnostic about who emits. So long as global emissions are capped at the level that science demands, their distribution is irrelevant. The...

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UPDATE 1-Teva to drop depression treatment after trial fails

2013-08-31 12:18:00| Biotech - Topix.net

Generic drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said it will stop the development of a depression treatment after a late-stage trial failed to show the drug was more effective than a placebo.

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Environmentalists say Keystone fails Obamas test

2013-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

FuelFix: Environmentalists on Thursday asserted that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline fails President Barack Obama`s test for approval, because it would exacerbate global warming. The project is the "linchpin" to unlocking the development of Alberta, Canada`s oil sands using particularly energy intensive techniques, according to a report issues by the Sierra Club, Environment America and other groups. "The Keystone XL presidential permit decision is so important precisely because it has critical implications...

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