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Duly Noted: Climate change and its direct costs on Chicago
2015-01-27 00:25:22| Grocery - Topix.net
A recent study on climate change points out that the Chicago region is susceptible to several economic effects from the changing weather that might not be immediately obvious. While much of the focus on rising temperatures, nationally, is on wildlife and how natural disasters might impact human living conditions, the study from the Risky Business Project emphasizes how much the region's energy costs could go up and how much the Midwest's agricultural economy could suffer, in turn hitting the Chicago financial markets.
Baijiu brands open to foreign investment as ownership rules change
2015-01-26 18:50:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Reforms to the rules covering foreign ownership of baijiu brands in China could see an influx of overseas investment in the category, according to a new report.
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Yep, Climate Change Is Still Causing Insane Storms
2015-01-26 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Forecasters are projecting "crippling snowfall amounts and life-threatening blizzard conditions" throughout the Northeast. They may as well toss in a 100 percent likelihood of jokes from American conservative media about how snow invalidates the idea of global warming. Cue headlines, such as these early hits from the Drudge Report, about the "Snowiest decade on record," with a link to the conservative website Climate Depot. Or this FLASHBACK NYT: The end of snow? headline, which points with...
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Climate change skeptic accused violating disclosure agreement
2015-01-26 17:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: A climate-change skeptic at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has relied on grants from fossil-fuel energy interests apparently failed to disclose financial conflicts of interest in a newly released paper, according to a complaint by a climate watchdog group. The paper by Harvard-Smithsonian scientist Willie Soon and three other climate-change skeptics contends that the UN panel that tracks global warming uses a flawed methodology to estimate global temperature change. Soon and...
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Climate change could impact poor much more than previously thought
2015-01-26 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its widely accepted that climate change will have bigger negative impacts on poorer countries than wealthy ones. However, a new economic modeling study finds that the economic impacts on these poorer countries could be much larger than previous estimates. As a result, they suggest that we should be aiming to limit global warming to near, or perhaps even less than the international target of 2°C. This conclusion is in sharp contrast to current economic models, which generally conclude that the...
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