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We risk more Haiyans if we ignore climate change
2013-11-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Policy makers are not keeping up with events. Just as the worlds climate-change negotiators met in Warsaw, Typhoon Haiyan was hitting the Philippines. And as they started their talks aimed at keeping global temperature increases below 2C the International Energy Agency issued a new reference scenario implying a rise of 3.6C. Calamity is mainstream. Whether Typhoon Haiyan, which was on preliminary measures the strongest on record ever to make landfall, was caused by human-induced climate change...
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A Winning Dividend Portfolio With Very Low Risk
2013-11-16 07:18:45| Footwear - Topix.net
I tried to create a good-yielding stock portfolio that can outperform the market by a big margin, but at the same time, would have a very low risk.
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REDD+ carbon market stabilizes, but risk of supply glut looms
2013-11-14 00:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Logging, conversion to plantations and agriculture, and other drivers of deforestation account for roughly ten percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions The market for carbon credits generated under projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) showed signs of stabilizing in 2012 after a sharp drop in 2011, finds Forest Trends' new assessment of the global forest carbon market. The report, titled State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013, shows that offsets...
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US: LL Bean recalls girl's pyjamas over burn risk
2013-11-13 11:18:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Around 800 girl's pyjama sets, which were made in China, have been recalled by LL Bean because they fail to meet federal flammability standards, posing a risk of burn injuries.
Letter to the Editor: U.S. Must Address Risk to Power Grid of Coronal Mass Ejections
2013-11-12 21:10:14| ENR.com: Headline News
Solar disturbances can disrupt power grids, as occurred in Quebec in 1989. Mitigation is not expensive, the writer contends.
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