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Climate change: swift political action can avert a carbon dioxide crisis
2013-05-12 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The news that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a level of 400 parts per million last week might not appear to have immediate significance. The level is only a couple of units higher than last year, after all. Yet the development has undoubted importance. With the realisation that carbon dioxide levels have achieved that symbolic 400ppm figure, it is now clear that two decades of warnings from scientists have fallen on deaf ears and that our leaders have failed completely...
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Eco-minded exec Musk leaves Zuckerberg's political group
2013-05-11 05:17:46| CNET News.com
Elon Musk, CEO of electric-car company Tesla Motors, bows out of Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg's political action group after the group funds ads that rile the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, and others. [Read more]
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Honey bees under threat: a political pollinator crisis
2013-05-08 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically. The debate over what to do about dying honey bees is one...
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Political factions fight over Texas Rainy Day Fund
2013-04-30 22:31:35| Electronics - Topix.net
Rep. Allan Ritter has spent years trying to find the money to build the water pipelines, reservoirs and conservation systems Texas' rapidly growing population needs, and this was supposed to be the year it finally happened.
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Political thaw raises hopes for refrigerant regulations
2013-04-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: This week China budged. Depending on one`s perspective, it wasn`t much of a concession. The country agreed, in essence, to do what it and everybody else had already agreed to do back in 2007: accelerate the phasing out of a common class of ozone-eating refrigerants that double as powerful greenhouse gases. But rather than haggling over prices each step of the way, China made it simple and cut a single deal -- worth up to US$385 million -- to eliminate hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) between now...
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