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Will Amazon Fire UPS Over Christmas Catastrophe?
2013-12-30 20:27:55| Air Courier - Topix.net
On Christmas, many boys and girls on the nice list failed to receive their presents due to a high volume of orders that United Parcel Service and FedEx didn't have the ability to handle.
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Politicians Delay Means Climate Catastrophe for Malawis Poor
2013-12-12 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Delays in finalising Malawi's climate change policy, which has been in the making for the last three years, are affecting millions of families living in disaster-prone areas across this southern African nation, says the country's minister of environment and climate change management Halima Daudi. Daudi, who led the Malawian delegation to COP19 in Warsaw last month, tells IPS that the delay in drafting and making the policy operational comes at a cost to many of Malawi`s vulnerable. "For example...
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When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
2013-10-17 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family. Karunyus husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of central and southeast Kenya, leaving 3.8 million people in need of food aid. Four years later, conditions in the area remain dire. According to the regional Drought Management Authority, while the upper parts...
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'Inviting catastrophe' on climate
2013-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry warned Monday that the lack of a global commitment to address climate change is inviting catastrophe and piling on uncertainty for busines Addressing the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Indonesia, Kerry stressed the impacts of climate change while acknowledging the public's wariness to accept the scientific data. "The fact is that the absence of a concerted global commitment to address this is inviting catastrophe," he said. "And for everybodys...
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Why the jury's still out on the risk of Arctic methane catastrophe
2013-09-05 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: About a week ago, climate scientist Michael Tobis wrote a critique of my 'Seven facts about the Arctic methane time bomb' following a twitter exchange with him and Chris Colose, author of an article at Skeptical Science arguing that the core scenario of a new Nature paper by Gail Whiteman et. al on the economic costs of Arctic climate change is extremely unlikely. Much of this debate kicked off because the said Nature paper advances a hypothetical scenario for an abrupt Arctic methane release...
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