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United Kingdom: "Iron Lady" Took Strong Stance on Climate Change

2013-04-08 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics who died Monday at the age of 87, is being lionized as the woman who tilted British domestic and economic policy to the right. Less noted is how seriously she viewed the threat of climate change and the robustness, more than 20 years ago, of climate science and United Nations body tasked with assessing state of that science. In a 1990 speech at the second World Climate Conference, in Geneva, Thatcher compared the threat of global warming...

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Legacy of an Iron Lady

2013-04-08 19:09:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

In Britain in the late 1970s there was no such thing as the consumer. When she left, politicians spoke of little else, says economics editor Stephanie Flanders.

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Margaret Thatcher's impact: the Iron Lady's key policies

2013-04-08 14:58:26| Footwear - Topix.net

Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio 4. This was as a result of her decision - whilst Education Secretary in the Heath government of 1970 to 194 - to axe free school milk for seven to 11-year-olds. She was even moved to write about ... (more)

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