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United Kingdom: Chernobyl lessons missed because research gaps
2014-11-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The long-term health effects of Chernobyl remain unclear 25 years after the most serious nuclear accident in history, according to a former World Health Organisation (WHO) official. A full assessment of the public health impact has been thwarted by poorly co-ordinated research on residents in areas close to the plant, and should be carried out with funding from the European commission, said Keith Baverstock, a former health and radiation adviser to the WHO. He said research had been frustrated...
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United Kingdom: Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across country
2014-11-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes caused by fracking and the information would be made public. We will be taking the pulse of the sub-surface environment and will reveal if things are going wrong, but also if they are going right, said Professor Mike Stephenson, director...
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United Kingdom: Political consensus on climate change has frayed, says Ed Miliband
2014-11-21 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The political consensus on climate change has frayed, said Labour party leader Ed Miliband on Thursday evening, who as energy and climate change secretary guided the Climate Change Act through parliament virtually unopposed. When times got tough, some people headed for the hills. Its not a great leap to infer that Miliband was referring to David Cameron, who has gone from hugging huskies in opposition to ditching green crap in office. As Miliband is the only alternative PM voters could...
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United Kingdom: Drought and flood fears after warm 2014
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Belfast Telegraph: New figures published by the Met Office show the period from January to October this year has been the warmest since records began in 1910 while it has also been the second wettest. Unless November and December are extremely cold, 2014 will enter the record books as the hottest ever. Experts say the increase is the result of climate change. Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said the elderly...
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United Kingdom: People living near windfarms to be offered stakes from 5 to counter opposition
2014-11-03 06:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: People living near new windfarms will be able to buy a stake in them for as little as 5 under new plans, as part of a fightback by industry to win over opponents of wind turbines. In a report produced for the Liberal Democrat energy and climate secretary, Ed Davey, renewable energy trade bodies, community energy groups and academics say that major future wind and solar farms should give communities the chance to invest and own as much as a quarter of projects. Onshore windfarms have proved...
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