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United Kingdom: Farmers' leaders look at new areas for badger cull
2013-01-09 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Farmers' leaders are considering the possibility of finding fresh areas for the controversial badger cull in England, which is due to take place later this year. The cull had been due to take place in two zones in Gloucestershire and Somerset this winter but the government announced in October that it would be postponed. The farmers' union, the NFU, said that alternative areas were being looked at in case the will to carry out the cull, designed to tackle bovine tuberculosis in cattle, was...
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United Kingdom: Met Office: global warming predictions revised down
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
4 News: The Met Office announces the world is not going to warm up as much as previously thought. Surprising news, as last week it said UK rainfall could keep breaking records because of global warming. The analysis suggests that by 2017 there will be 20 per cent less warming than predicted by Met Office forecasters in 2011. Those critical of the idea of man-made global warming have seized upon the announcement. To them, it reveals a problem with the fact that the Met Office and journalists continue to...
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United Kingdom: Charles speaks of fears for grandchild
2013-01-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The News: The prospect of becoming a grandfather to the baby of Prince William and his wife Catherine has strengthened Prince Charles's determination to fight climate change, he said in an interview broadcast on Monday. The heir to the British throne, an outspoken environmental campaigner, said he did not want his first grandchild to ask him why he had not done more to halt climate change. Prince William and Catherine, both 30, announced her first pregnancy in December and their baby is expected this...
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United Kingdom: Prince Charles Worries About Environment for Unborn Grandchild
2013-01-07 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: He may be next in line to the British throne, but he apparently worries just like any other dad or grandfather-to-be. Prince Charles, a well-known advocate for environmental causes, told ITV's "This Morning" that he doesn't want his unborn grandchild to wonder why he didn't do more to tackle issues like climate change. "I've gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long-term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change and everything else," the prince, 64, said...
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United Kingdom: Weather: Could every cloud have a sinister lining?
2013-01-06 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: When it came to weather, my parents were like those two little figures who alternate in emerging from the barometrically sensitive model house. My mother was the gloomy one, ever-armed with umbrella (and Pac-a-mac, for good measure), ever-ready with gloomy forebodings ("Sun before seven, rain by 11" was a favourite way to greet a cheery morning). My father was the sunny type, able to discern patches of incipient blue in the most leaden skies and who would describe each fall of rain, however prolonged...
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