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Call for political consensus on HS2
2013-10-29 01:05:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The transport secretary calls for a broad political consensus on the HS2 high speed rail link, as the government prepares to set out its business case.
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Climate change and the politics of consensus
2013-10-07 03:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Can a newspaper group achieve consensus on the science of climate change? Last Thursday, in an article on the pseudo debate that is currently impeding the communication of climate change in Australia, I called for reforms to journalistic standards to address the urgency of this issue, and in comments pointed out the inconsistencies amongst News Corp columnists on the facts of the science. My article drew a response from one of News Corps star columnists, Andrew Bolt, who accused me of among...
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U.N. aviation body reaches consensus on emissions deal
2013-10-04 04:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nations civil aviation body reached consensus on a roadmap on Thursday to create what would be a market-based scheme to help curb carbon emissions from a major industry by 2020, but rejected a European proposal that would have let it apply its own market scheme to foreign airlines in the interim. The agreement by the executive committee of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) emerged after two full days of plenary hall debates and intensive sideline huddles. Though...
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A new, consensus approach to sugar subsidy reform
2013-09-30 08:39:07| Sugar Industry News
Republicans in the House of Representatives and Democrats in the Senate didn\'t agree on much during the farm bill debate, but both bodies clearly sided with the powerful U.S. sugar lobby when it came to the continuation of U.S. sugar tariffs and quotas.
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The climate change consensus: a call for care in interpretation
2013-09-25 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A landmark report slated for release Friday is likely to announce the world`s leading climate scientists are 95 percent certain that recent global warming is largely due to human activities. But what the report, from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will not say is that scientists are 95 percent certain about the severity of the consequences. This is an important distinction, but one that frequently gets blurred. For example, in an otherwise well-constructed piece...
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