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How Exxon Mobil And Koch Brothers Created A Culture Of Climate Doubt
2015-11-27 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reviewed 20 years of data starting in 1993 to show that climate change-denying groups and individuals who received money from Exxon Mobil and the Koch brothers began to unify their messages in 2007, amplifying supposed uncertainty surrounding the issue. "They were writing things that were different from the contrarian organizations that did not receive corporate funding,' Yale University sociologist and lead study...
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Doubt Playwright Developing Miniseries for HBO
2015-11-16 19:21:09| Furniture - Topix.net
"Factory Man," which tells the story of the Bassett family, is described by Deadline as such: "Throughout much of the 20th century, generations of the family oversaw the rise of their furniture manufacturing company, Bassett Furniture, the biggest employer in their Virginia hometown. But with the onset of the 21st century, global capitalism threatened the future of the company, and the family scion, John Bassett III, was forced to take on China - as well as his own industry - in order to keep his family's legacy alive."
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Exxon sowed doubt about climate science for decades by stressing uncertainty
2015-10-23 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideCllimate: As he wrapped up nine years as the federal government's chief scientist for global warming research, Michael MacCracken lashed out at ExxonMobil for opposing the advance of climate science. His own great-grandfather, he told the Exxon board, had been John D. Rockefeller's legal counsel a century earlier. "What I rather imagine he would say is that you are on the wrong side of history, and you need to find a way to change your position," he wrote. Addressed to chairman Lee Raymond on the letterhead...
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Researcher's Demo Sheds Doubt on Fitbit Security
2015-10-23 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Fortinet security researcher Axelle Apvrille demonstrated Wednesday in a presentation at the Hack.lu conference in Luxembourg. Apvrille showed how it was possible to access a Fitbit's Bluetooth connection and, in a mere 10 seconds, infect it with a malicious packet that later could be used to infect a PC, a feat she demoed earlier this month at a hacker conference in Budapest.
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El Nio doubt delays disaster preparation
2015-10-21 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Disagreement between scientists over whether Central and South America are about to be hit by a major El Nio event are delaying vital preparations, the region's weather organisations warn. South American scientists are still quibbling over whether an El Nio event is building. The uncertainty is impacting officials and states, who must act soon to prevent the worst scenarios, including deaths from natural disasters, meteorological organisations say. Eduardo Zambrano, a researcher at the International...
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