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Figueres: China setting pace in climate change challenge
2013-08-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Responding to Climate Change: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says the low carbon leadership of Chinas government should be used an example worldwide. Speaking ahead of the China Summit on Caring for Climate, she said the recent five year plan and carbon market pilots were evidence the planets largest economy is committed to change. This progress shows domestic manufacturing and investment practices dovetailing into a local need for clean air and the global need for increased ambition in climate, she said. Stressing...
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Weather Extremes Challenge Corn Nitrogen Management
2013-08-01 17:03:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The nitrogen conundrum | Weather extremes challenge practical corn fertility strategies Nitrogen management is entirely about risk management, especially this year. Theres an economic risk of wasting money and being seen as environmentally reckless by applying too much N, and a risk of corn yield loss from applying too little, says Dan Frieberg, president of Premier Crop Systems, LLC, in West Des Moines, Iowa. But theres also a risk thats not talked about much allowing nitrogen-management decisions to adversely affect other crop-production operations. read more
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Googles Science Fellows Challenge the Companys Fund-Raising for Senator Inhofe
2013-08-01 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases. There was a a touch of lawyerly nuance in that speech with Inhofe specifying he was asserting that catastrophic man-made global warming was a hoax. Its one thing to have a political debate about the level of danger posed by the building greenhouse effect. How...
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Japanese firms vow to challenge South Korean court rulings
2013-07-31 21:41:09| Steel - Topix.net
Two Japanese companies say they will appeal against verdicts in which they were ordered to compensate South Koreans who were forced to work in the company's factories during the period of Japanese colonial rule of Korea, which ended with the second world war.
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Housing benefit challenge fails
2013-07-30 12:30:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Disabled families lose a High Court challenge to social housing benefit cuts for residents with spare bedrooms in England, Wales and Scotland.
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