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Mitt Romney's 'hilarious' strategy: Claim Newt is a flip-flopper?
Fri,2 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST
The Week (RSS) - Publicly, Mitt Romney's campaign is unconcerned about Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls, calling it merely the latest anti-Mitt bubble. But behind the scenes, "they know the latest alarm isn't a drill," says Reid J. Epstein at Politico. To try and knock Gingrich out, Team Romney is preparing "a robust, sustained attack that tags the former House speaker as a Washington insider and serial flip-flopper." Newt has indeed changed many of his positions, famously on climate change, an individual mandate to buy health insurance, and the war in Libya. But considering that Romney is also famous for... ... Full Story | Top |
Tapes show concern before Ind. stage collapse
Fri,2 Dec 2011 06:03 AM PST
AP - A recording of dispatch radio calls shows that emergency workers were expressing concern about severe weather just minutes before winds ripped through the Indiana State Fair and caused a fatal stage collapse. Full Story | Top |
Arctic changing 'at record pace': study
Fri,2 Dec 2011 02:48 AM PST
AFP - An international team of 121 scientists has found "record-setting" change in the Arctic linked to global warming, including melting ice, warming waters and changing wind patterns. Full Story | Top |
Green agenda: COP 17 comes to a close, renewable energy tech on display in Japan
Fri,2 Dec 2011 01:13 AM PST
AFP Relax News -  Over the coming week COP17, currently taking place in Durban, South Africa, will come to a close; though it is not yet known what the outcome of the climate change talks will be, several prominent green groups have expressed their pessimism over a consensus being reached. Taking place over the same period is the 6th Renewable Energy Expo held in Japan which seeks to explore greener alternative sources of energy and technologies that could help preserve the environment.
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New Climate Report Claims Global Warming's Toll on Extreme Weather
Thu,1 Dec 2011 12:40 PM PST
Time.com - Maybe we should retire the term "global warming," which makes climate change sound like a nice, pleasant bath. It's true that climate change -- caused chiefly by the rapid increase in manmade carbon emissions -- will result in warmer temperatures, fewer cold days and longer and more intense heat waves. But the real damage, both economically and in human lives, is likely to be inflicted by an increase or amplification of extreme weather events -- floods, storms, droughts. Full Story | Top |
NH utilities defend response to October snowstorm
Thu,1 Dec 2011 07:20 AM PST
AP - The directors of the state's four major electric companies on Wednesday defended their response to an October snowstorm that cut off power to 315,000 customers, saying that the storm was unprecedented and that planning was hampered by a weather forecast that changed dramatically beforehand. Full Story | Top |
UK plans to convert plutonium reserve into MOX fuel
Thu,1 Dec 2011 06:56 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The government wants to burn the country's huge stockpile of waste plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) as part of a long-term nuclear strategy, it said on Thursday following a consultation that rejected other options. The world's largest civilian stockpile of used plutonium -- stored at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria -- would be converted into MOX fuel for possible use in a new generation of thermal light water reactors, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said. ...
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S.Africa's 2010/11 maize crop down nearly 20 pct
Thu,1 Dec 2011 05:59 AM PST
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's May 2010-April 2011 maize harvest fell nearly 20 percent from the previous season, in line with market expectations, due to unfavourable weather conditions, the Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Thursday. South Africa reaped 10.36 million tonnes of maize in the 2010/11 season, compared with the previous year's harvest of 12.815 million tonnes. The crop was lower than the committee's final forecast of 10.608 million tonnes and largely in line with traders' estimates of 10.3 million tonnes, according to a Reuters poll. ...
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Baobab lights
Wed,30 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST
AFP -  South Africans light up a Baobab tree by riding bikes in Durban as part of a renewable energies display on the beach front, during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP17).
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U.N. Report Indicates 2011 to Be One of the Hottest Years on Record
Wed,30 Nov 2011 03:40 PM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network - According to National Geographic, a United Nations report indicates 2011 is looking to be one of the 10 hottest years on record. The conclusion is especially problematic since this year is part of the La Nina period, a climate pattern marked relatively cooler global conditions. In addition, this year has had numerous extreme weather events, which are often a symptom of global warming and increasing average global temperatures. Full Story | Top |
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