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Science and Politics Clash as Humanity Nears Climate Change Tipping Point
2016-03-13 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Despite having had a heart transplant three years before, Lonnie Thompson ascended to 22,000 feet and braved -35 degree F temperatures on a mountain peak in far western China in 2015 to do his job as an ice-core paleoclimatologist. The renowned professor from the Ohio State University has extracted and examined ice cores from around the world since 1974. He testified before the U.S. Senate about global warming in 1992, detailing the havoc climate change is wreaking on the planet. The testimony came...
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What determines whether people accept climate science? Politics, politics, politics
2016-02-24 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: What kind of person doesn`t believe that climate change is a problem? What kind of person does? Behold a new set of answers to this thorny social science question, released earlier this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Or rather, a whole lot of old answers, derived from data assembled over the last eight years: 12 Pew surveys, 3 British polls collected by the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change, an International Social Survey conducted across 32 countries, 8 Australian polls,...
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Climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air
2016-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is the greatest environmental hazard of the age. Nothing focuses our concern for the future more, divides rich and poor, exercises science, business, politicians, old and young. It is an existential threat, a generational battle. All political and financial resources must be concentrated on stopping climate change. But now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we must ask whether we have lost sight of...
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Politics Kill China's Bid For Fairchild Semiconductor
2016-02-18 18:06:14| Electronics - Topix.net
Fairchild's decision to halt talks to be acquired by a Chinese group reflects mounting U.S. national security concerns over cross-border M&A from China. Fairchild's decision marks the latest case in a recent rise of US-China deals thrown into doubt over national security concerns, which has its roots in several factors.
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Politics Kill China's Bid For Fairchild Semiconductor
2016-02-17 20:56:12| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Fairchild's decision to halt talks to be acquired by a Chinese group reflects mounting U.S. national security concerns over cross-border M&A from China. Fairchild's decision marks the latest case in a recent rise of US-China deals thrown into doubt over national security concerns, which has its roots in several factors.
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