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Organizations Bankrolling Climate Change Denial Revealed in New Study
2013-12-20 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new report in the journal Climatic Change details the sources of funding for climate change deniers. The study is the first peer-reviewed analysis of the funding organizations behind the climate change counter-movement. Environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle of Drexel University conducted the study during a year-long fellowship at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Brulle found that a number of well-known conservative organizations are at the backbone...
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Same-Sex Couples Sue Railroad Over Denial Of Health Care Benefits
2013-12-05 03:43:33| Railroads - Topix.net
Two railroad workers are going to federal court in Seattle to force their employer to provide health care benefits to their same sex spouses.
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Missing logic of Australian prime minister's denial of climate change link to bush fires
2013-10-29 03:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: o wanders into a classroom full of five-year-olds, sits down, pulls out a packet of cigarettes and starts to smoke them, exhaling puffs of cancer-inducing haze that waft into the little kids' faces. "Please stop that," pleads one of the children. "My mummy says smoking gives you cancer." "Rubbish," replies the smoker. "People have been dying of cancer ever since humans have walked the Earth. How did the cavemen die of cancer before cigarettes were invented, eh?" Clearly, our cancer-stick...
Making Republicans pay a price for climate science denial
2013-10-22 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Is it possible to make GOP lawmakers pay a political price for throwing in with the climate science deniers? The League of Conservation Voters is engaged in an interesting experiment designed to answer that question, running ads targeting GOP Senator Ron Johnson and a handful of House GOP lawmakers over their climate denialism. The groups operating theory: Denying what science says about threats to the fate of the planet should perhaps be, you know, a tiny bit politically problematic. GOP lawmakers...
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Angola 'in denial' over impact of severe drought
2013-10-22 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Angolan government has been accused of being in denial over a drought that has affected 1.8 million people because the crisis threatens to tarnish the country's image as a booming economy. Children as young as nine are digging wells to fetch water, amid a severe drought in southern regions of Angola that has forced people to use unclean water for consumption and cooking, according to the UN. Neighbouring Namibia, which has also been badly affected, has declared a drought emergency and appealed...
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