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FEMA's climate change denial
2013-03-31 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: To the mountain of difficulties facing New Jersey families after Hurricane Sandy, add one more: the federal government`s unwillingness to help them predict the impact of climate change over the next several decades. The flood maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency do not consider the rising sea levels or increasing frequency of big storms that scientists predict. "Right now, we don`t do that," says Dave Miller, who runs FEMA`s flood insurance program. "Do the new maps reflect...
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America's Coastal Denial
2013-03-25 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: The sand was the thing we noticed first. Mostly because it hadnt been there yesterday, or any day before yesterday, and now it was absolutely everywhere. For the first 23 hours after the storm, we hadnt been able to see much of anything at all. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy had made landfall just south of Long Beach Island, New Jersey, the narrow strip of coastline where I spent my childhood summers and where my parents have lived, full time, for the past eight years. Now a day had passed,...
The connection between climate change denial books and right-wing think tanks
2013-03-21 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Science Watch: Books denying human-caused climate change and its significance are one key means of creating an aura of credibility around manufactured uncertainty and attacks on climate science and scientists. New research published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist finds a strong link between right-wing think tanks and 108 climate change denial books published through 2010. "It appears that at least 90% of denial books do not undergo peer review," the study says, "allowing authors or editors to recycle...
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Denial of service attack takes down JP Morgan Chase sites
2013-03-12 23:29:45| CNET News.com
Spokesperson confirms to CNET that the attack is occurring but can't say how long the site has been down. [Read more]
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Greedy Lying Bastards: New Film Exposes Climate Denial Machine
2013-03-08 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Greedy Lying Bastards is a new film hitting mainstream theaters nationwide this weekend. If you like DeSmogBlog, you`re going to love this film. Here`s the Rotten Tomatoes review, including theater times. (Feel free to add your own star rating!) The film, produced by actress Daryl Hannah and directed by Craig Rosebraugh, essentially tells the DeSmogBlog story. Greedy Lying Bastards chronicles the dirty money trail from tobacco companies paying for fake experts to attack the science linking...
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