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The GM Backlash: debate over the adoption of GM crops in Europe
2013-10-28 16:35:00| Food Processing Technology
The UK environment secretary recently urged for a widespread adoption of GM crops in Europe, opening the gates to more controversial debates over GM foods. Stephanie Phillips asks what is the future of GM?
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United Kingdom: Lord Stern touts benefits of decarbonisation target ahead of Energy Bill debate
2013-10-28 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Fast-tracking a target to decarbonise the UK's power sector would help avoid a "rapid and expensive transition" towards low carbon energy further down the line that could result in "large-scale scrapping" of fossil fuel power plants, Lord Stern has warned. The noted economist was speaking ahead of today's House of Lords debate on an Energy Bill amendment that would commit the government introduce a 2030 target next year, which he proposed last week along with fellow cross-bench peer, and former...
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Australia: Fires incite political debate over climate change
2013-10-27 01:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: As bushfires devastated parts of New South Wales, the political sphere was heating up over whether global warming is behind the ferocity of the Australian fire season. (Song plays throughout: Change - Flume) (Footage of the bushfires is shown) TRACY BOWDEN, ABC REPORTER, 7.30: Is this climate change in action? ANNABELLE CRABB, 7.30 PRESENTER: Behind the fire-front a secondary battle is underway CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONENT, CNN: Is there a link between climate...
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Australian bushfires fan global warming debate
2013-10-26 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia has been battling unseasonably bad bushfires for weeks. The flames have destroyed hundreds of homes - and have also intensified a political debate about whether there is a link with global warming. Australia's Blue Mountains get their name from the eucalyptus trees that coat their slopes. On a warm day the sun heats up the oils in the trees' vibrant green leaves. As those oils evaporate into the atmosphere it gives the range a shimmering blue hue. For much of this week though the...
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Australia: Climate debate must stick to the science: Professor
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The author of a report that lays bare the connection between climate change and extreme bushfires has expressed his ''frustration'' with Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Environment Minister Greg Hunt for their refusal to accept scientific consensus on climate change. Professor Will Steffen, who co-authored the soon-to-be-released bushfire report by the Climate Council, was responding to Mr Abbott's assertion in a newspaper interview with leading climate sceptic Andrew Bolt that drawing a link between...
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