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UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster

2014-04-12 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: David Cameron's commitment to the green agenda will come under the fiercest scrutiny yet this week when top climate-change experts will warn that only greater use of renewable energy including windfarms can prevent a global catastrophe. A report by the world's leading authorities will expose a growing gulf between a Tory party intent on halting construction of more onshore windfarms and the world's leading scientists, who see them as one of the cheapest ways to provide energy while at the...

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Another Presdiential Emergency Board Called To Help Avert LIRR Strike

2014-03-21 05:36:51| Railroads - Topix.net

President Barack Obama has appointed a second Presidential Emergency Board to help resolve a labor dispute between the Long Island Rail Road and some of its employees.

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Avert water wars - build desalination plants

2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Chonicle: Get ready for the water wars. Most of the world's population takes water for granted, just like air - two life-sustaining substances. After all, the human body is nearly two-thirds water. But a Hindustan Times blogger said that in India right now, as in so many other places around the globe, drinkable water has become such a precious commodity that it's dragging the world into "water wars to follow the ones for the control of fuel oil." Climate change is drying up lakes and rivers almost...

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