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Virginia district cancels classes after flap over Islamic-themed lesson
2015-12-18 17:12:00| American School & University
Augusta County district was inundated with calls and email after geography lesson included Islamic content read more
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How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gamble: another collapse could the end worlds ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change. And no political leader wanted his reputation...
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Ontario's green energy botch-up a lesson for those fighting climate change
2015-12-06 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is tricky. Its easy to set targets and hard to do anything that might meet those targets. But harder still is the ability to accomplish any of this in a sensible way. Thats the lesson from Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk, who last week issued a scathing report on the provincial Liberal governments deeply flawed attempt to promote green energy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others involved in the international efforts underway in Paris this week to curb...
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Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room roam
2015-11-03 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A study of life and extinctions among woolly mammoths and other ice-age animals suggests that interconnected habitats can help Arctic mammal species survive environmental changes. The study went online Nov. 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "Early Edition." Short periods of warm climate in the midst of the last ice age triggered boom-and-bust cycles in the populations of large mammals in the Arctic, the researchers found. Many large mammals became extinct when these cycles...
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The lesson from climate change is how we must learn to adapt
2015-10-17 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Bank of England Governor Mark Carneys recent speech to the insurance industry on climate change sharply divided opinion a clue perhaps as to its importance. Central bank governors generally give rather conventional speeches on monetary policy, financial risks, the economy and markets so why the focus on climate change, a topic more typically associated with the green lobby? The Governor linked climate change with risks to financial stability and, since he was speaking at insurance broker...
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