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Canada: Inconvenient truth about oilsands and cancer
2014-03-25 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delhi News: "Don't confuse us with facts.' That's what opponents of the oilsands seem to be saying about the latest report on alleged links between oilsands development and cancer among First Nations people in Northern Alberta. Their next step will almost certainly be shooting the messenger, James Talbot, Alberta's chief medical officer of health. Watch for environmental activists and "green' politicians to start claiming Talbot is a puppet of the provincial government or "Big Oil.' On Monday, Talbot released...
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Filmmaker Randy Olson: Climate change is an inconvenient bore
2013-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Has the climate change "brand" been ruined? Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that the problem with trying to raise awareness about global warming is that it's the most boring subject on earth. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Dr. Olson, you say you've figured out the most boring subject humanity has ever confronted: global warming. So I have to ask, I have studied the subject and ... Randy Olson: OK, this is probably going to be the most boring interview I've ever done. And I probably shouldn't even...
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Comment - Soft Drinks & Water - An Inconvenient Truth for Soft Drinks
2013-11-26 18:26:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
This month, Richard Corbett looks at the changing role of the convenience store when it comes to soft drinks and bottled water sales.
After Haiyan: how to act on scientific advice that's politically inconvenient?
2013-11-19 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The proposal, advanced by the G77 plus China, that the US and other nations should pay tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries that suffer disasters, is a central theme of the climate negotiations now taking place in Warsaw, Poland. It's an idea that has been made more tangible by the tragic loss of life and devastation in the Philippines caused by super typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful observed storms of recent decades. This disaster in the Philippines is part of...
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Australia: Tony Abbott's rising tide of inconvenient truths
2013-09-30 02:35:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: As Tony Abbott said ad nauseam during the campaign, the 2013 federal election was about three things: the onerous level of public debt, stopping the boats and abolition of the carbon tax. Ignored until after the election was the question of whether the moderate level of debt was a major factor in Australia avoiding the recessionary consequences of the global financial crisis. Then the new government (and its media apologists) segued effortlessly and without explanation into arguing that the deficit...
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