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Pope Francis, science and government are reframing climate change
2015-07-06 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: THE long-anticipated encyclical by Pope Francis to the world on the environment was released mid-June. The Lancet Commission, a distinguished United Kingdom-based health body, the following week released its report on health and climate change. The next day, the White House hosted a summit on the same subject. Will this unprecedented alignment of key official voices -- religious, scientific and governmental -- change the conversation on ecological destruction and whom it impacts? Pope Francis...
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Anti-fracking Nanas: 'The government is all out for shale we're all out to stop it'
2015-07-03 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If the two security guards had been awake, they probably wouldnt have believed their eyes. Twenty-five women aged between 25 and 60, in yellow tabards and matching Hilda Ogden headscarves, vaulting a gate in order to occupy the Blackpool field that the energy company Cuadrilla had paid the guards to mind. Everything went smoothly, except for the logistical bits we left to the fellas, said hairdresser Anjie Mosher, one of the group known as the Nanas, who have become the frontline against fracking...
New report claims F-35 outclassed by 40 year-old F-16, government disagrees
2015-07-02 23:27:36| Extremetech
A new report claims the F-35 Raptor can't match the performance of an F-16 in simulated dogfighting. The US government disputes several aspects of the report, but not persuasively.
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Fracking could impact house prices and environment, admits government report
2015-07-02 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A newly released government report has admitted that houses close to fracking operations in the UK could see their value fall by up to 7% and the process could cause environmental damage. The report was published in full for the first time this week after a decision by data watchdog the Information Commissioners Office forced the government to publish the unredacted report. The government has stated the paper is not analytically robust and includes early, often vague, assumptions which are...
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Australians don't trust government or telcos to protect their data: survey
2015-07-01 10:48:55| IT Services - Topix.net
In a sign of collapsing trust in online security, one in two Australians expects a government agency or telecommunications provider will suffer a breach of their personal data within the next 12 months, research by Unisys Corp has found. Unisys, a global information technology firm listed in New York, conducted a survey of 1210 adult Australians, asking consumers about the likelihood that organisations would suffer a breach of their personal data in the next year.
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