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Trump and global warming: Americans are failing risk management
2016-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Currently, about 40% of Americans support Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and about 40% of Americans are not worried about global warming. While short of a majority, this is a substantial fraction of the American public failing to grasp the risks associated with a Donald Trump presidency and potentially catastrophic climate change impacts. In Business Insider, Josh Barro recently wrote about the former: Trump calls for a huge risk premium because, while he probably wouldnt...
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Austins African Americans being pushed to suburbs away from parks and grocery stores
2016-05-26 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A new study of African-American residents leaving Austin for the suburbs shows that communities of color are being displaced not just in coastal cities such as Portland and Washington, D.C. but in Texas too. And in too many cases, this can mean a lower quality of life, with less access to amenities such as supermarkets and green spaces. As Austins tech economy has boomed and the music scene has turned it into a hipster mecca, the citys real estate has grown more expensive. Historically black...
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Surprise: Americans Consume a Ton of Mobile Data
2016-05-24 02:03:28| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Americans used 9.6 trillion megabytes of data in 2015, according to CTIA.
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It's our duty as Americans to protect our national parks for the next hundred years
2016-05-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just over eight years ago, I completed a free solo ascent unroped of the one of the most beautiful and challenging climbs in the world: a 350 metre crack called Moonlight Buttress in southwestern Utahs Zion national park. At the time, Alpinist magazine called it one of the most impressive free solos ever achieved. While I find it hard to articulate exactly why Im drawn to this type of exposed, unroped climbing, the setting certainly plays a big role. Zion is aptly named: its a promised...
Warrantless spying on Americans more than doubled since 2013: oversight report
2016-05-10 17:39:43| Extremetech
The latest transparency report for US national intelligence shows a dramatic uptick in warrantless access to the communications of Americans.
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