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'Year of hard truths', Osborne warns
2014-01-06 04:11:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
This year will be "the year of hard truths" with more "painful cuts" needed to help the economic recovery, the chancellor will warn later.
Australia: Tony Abbott's rising tide of inconvenient truths
2013-09-30 02:35:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: As Tony Abbott said ad nauseam during the campaign, the 2013 federal election was about three things: the onerous level of public debt, stopping the boats and abolition of the carbon tax. Ignored until after the election was the question of whether the moderate level of debt was a major factor in Australia avoiding the recessionary consequences of the global financial crisis. Then the new government (and its media apologists) segued effortlessly and without explanation into arguing that the deficit...
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Cold, hard truths of climate change are catching up with us
2013-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Post: The discovery this month of a dead polar bear consisting of little more than a sad rug of skin and bones, lying on the earth at Svalbard far north into the Arctic, should be a worry, and a warning that precious life on earth is being threatened by thoughtlessness and the greed of powerful politicians and commercial interests. It is only going to get worse. The bear starved to death, a victim of the melting Arctic ice: it did not have the sea ice from which to hunt seals, so it had to wander far...
Fracking: some inconvenient truths
2013-06-27 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's mouth-watering. There may well be more natural gas stuck in our shale rock than we ever thought possible a whole decade's worth. This is excellent news, in a way, because in addition to the money (and don't belittle the money), this gives the UK an energy resource that can ensure it against sudden spikes in import energy prices like whenever we start a war. There is just one small problem. Hydrochloric acid. Well, there are actually quite a few chemicals involved, but this one eats through...
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