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What Would Happen If Everyone In The World Gave Up Meat
2014-05-03 15:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: The meat industry is one of the top contributors to climate change, directly and indirectly producing about 14.5 percent of the world's anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and global meat consumption is on the rise. People generally like eating meat--when poor people start making more money, they almost invariably start buying more meat. As the population grows and eats more animal products, the consequences for climate change, pollution, and land use could be catastrophic. Attempts...
The journal that gave in to climate deniers
2014-04-09 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject climate science are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Predictably enough, those people didnt like it. The paper, which I helped to peer-review, is called Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation. In it, cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues survey and analyze the outcry generated...
GM's Supplier-Squeezing Days Gave Birth to Flawed Models: Cars
2014-03-23 09:53:49| Automakers - Topix.net
The General Motors assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Investigations and lawsuits related to unintended acceleration foreshadow some of what GM faces as it resolves issues linked to a faulty ignition switch.
Editorial gave short shrift to east-side park development: Guest opinion
2014-03-03 18:48:02| PortlandOnline
Commissioner Amanda Fritz in The Oregonian, February 28, 2014
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Harper government gave big oil & pipeline companies $400M to go green
2013-12-22 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: Canadian taxpayers have given more than $400 million to some large oil, gas and pipeline companies in recent years to support green projects that are also boosting the industrys environmental credentials. An analysis of federal accounting records by Postmedia News shows that Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government has offered these subsidies to money-making companies such as Shell Canada, Suncor, Husky Energy and Enbridge to pursue projects in biofuels production and wind energy as well as...
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