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Social-media 'influencers' create product buzz, change policies
2015-02-23 07:42:47| Mobile Homes - Topix.net
Early in the morning of Oct. 22, Kevin Frye was checking his social media feeds when he noticed a YouTube ad posted by Edmunds.com spoofing the practice of auto dealers haggling with customers. "I caught that Edmunds campaign right as it launched," says Frye, eCommerce director of the Jeff Wyler Automotive Family dealership group in Cincinnati.
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Climate change bill faces uphill battle
2015-02-22 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, the odds of passing a climate change bill this year are virtually non-existent. But Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, plans to reintroduce legislation to cap carbon emissions this week, anyway, due in part to the impact it could have on the 2016 election. "Our goal is to keep attention focused on this issue as we head into this congressional session, and also into the presidential election in 2016," Van Hollen told CNN, explaining the bill...
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Malaysian-born astrophysicist paid write 'doubtful' climate change reports
2015-02-22 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asia One: A Kangar-born astrophysicist took money in exchange for writing allegedly doubtful reports on climate change, the international media has claimed. In a New York Times report, Dr Willie Wei-Hock Soon was alleged to have received more than US$1.2mil (RM4.36mil) from the fossil fuel industry over the past decade. The report added that Dr Soon, who claimed that global warming was linked more to the sun than human factors, failed to report these contributions in his research. "At least 11 papers...
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Climate Change Denier Wei-Hock Soon Took Over $1 Million Oil Industry
2015-02-22 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Saving Advice: There is an ongoing debate about how humans are affecting the global climate and subsequently, what governments and policy makers should do to stem the effects of climate change. According to Wikipedia, no scientific body disagrees with the view that global surface temperatures have increased primarily due to human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and as such, there should be political pressure to prevent continued changes. However, there is a small group of scientists who disagree with this...
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Leading climate change denier was paid by energy companies
2015-02-22 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Wei-Hock Soon, a leading climate change denier whose work has fortified right-wing political arguments for years, was paid more than $1.2 million by energy companies, The New York Times reports. New documents uncovered by Greenpeace via the Freedom of Information Act show that over the last decade, Soon received sizable funding from oil and gas corporations, which he failed to disclose in scientific papers he published. This is not the first time Soon has been found receiving compensation for...
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