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United Kingdom: London Array becomes world's largest windfarm as last turbine comes online
2013-04-09 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK's wind power industry has restated its pledge to drive down the cost of energy, as it pushed the button on the last of the 175 turbines at the world's largest offshore wind farm. The London Array project, jointly owned by Dong Energy, Masdar and EON, yesterday annouced that the first 630MW phase of the project in the Thames estuary is now fully operational. "This is the final major milestone of the construction phase and the culmination of more than two years' offshore construction work...
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United Kingdom: Ban hails Thatcher the forgotten climate warrior
2013-04-09 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Monday lauded a little-remembered act in Margaret Thatcher's welter of political firsts -- when she urged action on global warming. Ban "pays tribute to her contribution to addressing climate change, having been one of the first world leaders to issue a warning about its effects by calling for action at the UN General Assembly already in 1989," said the UN spokesman Martin Nesirky. Thatcher, who died Monday at the age of 87, gave a speech to the United Nations in 1989...
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United Kingdom: "Iron Lady" Took Strong Stance on Climate Change
2013-04-08 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics who died Monday at the age of 87, is being lionized as the woman who tilted British domestic and economic policy to the right. Less noted is how seriously she viewed the threat of climate change and the robustness, more than 20 years ago, of climate science and United Nations body tasked with assessing state of that science. In a 1990 speech at the second World Climate Conference, in Geneva, Thatcher compared the threat of global warming...
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United Kingdom: When temperatures drop, pollution levels can soar
2013-04-07 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the 5 and 6 March air pollution reached the maximum value of 10 on the UK's air pollution index levels where the public are advised to reduce strenuous outdoor physical activity. The easterly air flow that bought cold weather to the UK during March also brought particulate air pollution from traffic and industry across Europe which combined with local air pollution from our own cities. Yorkshire, Warrington and Birmingham were the worst areas affected on 5 March. The area with index level 10...
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United Kingdom: London's cooking waste to fuel power station
2013-04-07 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cooking waste from thousands of London restaurants and food companies is to help run what is claimed to be the world's biggest fat-fuelled power station. The energy generated from the grease, oil and fat that clogs the capital's sewers will also be channelled to help run a major sewage works and a desalination plant, as well as supplying the National Grid, under plans announced by Thames Water and utility company 2OC. The prospect of easing the financial and logistical problems of pouring 1m...
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