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Hurricanes cut swath through US politics
2016-09-05 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Whether US citizens believe that hurricanes are getting more violent and more destructive depends on whether they have been in one lately and also whether they are female, and vote Democrat. If you are male, and tend to vote Republican, you may be less likely to accept the reality of climate change, say scientists who have been looking at public attitudes in exactly those coastal places most often hit by shrieking winds, storm surges and pounding seas. And that is in the face of evidence...
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All Politics Is Local
2016-09-02 04:10:26| Country Lines Online
In two months, Americans will go to the polls and cast votes for a president, 34 senators, 435 members of Congress, 12 governors, 5,920 state legislators and countless other local races. While the presidential race is at the top of most voters minds, it is the state and local races that have a more direct and immediate impact on the […]
Politics and Energy - Regulatory Chronicles
2016-08-09 20:41:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Our Energy Future, NARUC Style President Trump vs President H. Clinton on power policy read more
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Politics, economics and nature collide to spread Zika and other diseases
2016-08-07 04:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With the Zika virus looming just a couple of years after Ebola spread across West Africa, what's long been obvious to experts should now be clear to the rest of us: We live in an era of emerging pathogens. Between 1940 and 2004, more than 300 infectious diseases either emerged or spread into new places and populations. On July 29, Florida Gov. Rick Scott called a news conference to alert the public to four cases of Zika in South Florida transmitted locally by mosquitoes. (The number grew last...
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Faith and climate change in Canadian politics
2016-08-06 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last week, about 2 million young people -- including nearly 4,000 Canadians -- gathered in Poland to hear Pope Francis speak at Catholic World Youth Day. Even if, like me, you're neither young nor Catholic, it is nevertheless an event with interesting ramifications for Canada and our politics. World Youth Day happens every few years, and this was the first edition since the Pope released his encyclical Laudato Si' in 2015, which focused on environmental and ecological issues. It is a bold document:...
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