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Climate Scientists to Defend Their Jobs Against Climate Skeptics

by Dan Nicholas on November 8, 2010

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Global Warming - Scientists Prepare for Battle

US Climate scientists launched a campaign today to protect their jobs against the growing number of climate change skeptics in Congress. With the Republicans re-gaining power in last week’s elections, scientists who accept the man-made global warming dogma fear their jobs will be under threat. The liberal Center for American Progress analyzed GOP campaign statements [...]

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German Police Clash With Activists Over Nuclear Waste Train

November 8, 2010
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A train, dubbed “Chernobyl on wheels“, carrying nuclear waste was blocked by protesters yesterday on its way from reprocessing plant in France to Dannenberg in northern Germany en route to storage at the Gorleben disused salt mine. After German police intervened early this morning, the train has now arrived at its destination. The protesters claim [...]

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Gulf Seafood is Safe to Eat – Its Official

November 1, 2010
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Food and Drug Administration scientists analyzed 1,735 tissue samples gathered from the Gulf of Mexico seafood and according to their official report on Friday, found only 13 samples to contain trace-level quantities of the dispersant Corexit (used to break up oil from the BP spill). This is well below the the safety thresholds set by [...]

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Home Insulation Scheme – 4700 Pink Batts Homes at Serious Fire Risk

October 18, 2010
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Sydney, Australia – Australian government refuses to publish homes inspection  Australian National Audit Office report of the investigation on Friday following cancellation of the $2.45 billion “pink batts“insulation scheme. Greg Combet is the Climate Change Minister and Mark Dreyfus, the Parliamentary Secretary. In a joint statement, they said releasing the inspection data could “generate further [...]

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Google Invests Millions in Offshore Wind Energy

October 12, 2010
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The project has been described as “ground-breaking”, but that’s a strange term for a massive underwater program. Along with 2 other investors – Good Energies and Marubeni – Google is triggering a plan to build a 350-mile power transmission cable from an off-shore wind farm in the Atlantic to the US east coast cities. Here’s [...]

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China Hosts UN Climate Change Talks This Week

October 3, 2010
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Christiana Figueres, U.N. Climate Chief addressed 3000 delegates this morning at the UN’s six-day climate change conference in China. The host country, China is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, but aims to show the world that they are taking their role seriously with active steps to reduce their carbon emissions and increasingly use “clean” energy [...]

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Global District Cooling Strategists Meeting In Doha

September 28, 2010
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Over 200 Global District Cooling (DC) practitioners and solution providers are gathering in Doha this November to asses the current state of affairs and deliberate the future needs of the district cooling market. The recession has encouraged a move towards energy efficiency and district cooling had to reinvent itself to adapt to the challenging times. [...]

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