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Australia: Clear link between climate change & bushfires: UN adviser warns Tony Abbott
2013-10-22 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A senior United Nations climate change official says there is ''absolutely'' a link between climate change and bushfires and has warned that the Coalition government will pay a high political and financial price for its decision to scrap carbon pricing. In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday, the head of the UN's climate change negotiations, Christiana Figueres, said there was a clear link between climate change and bushfires such as those raging in New South Wales. She noted...
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Obama climate change adviser is leaving
2013-10-08 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: President Obama is losing his top adviser on energy and climate change issues. Heather Zichal plans to step down in the next few weeks after five years in the administration. A replacement for Zichal, the deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change, has not been named. From Reuters: "Zichal, 37, has advised Obama since his 2008 presidential campaign and helped shape the administration's policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions blamed for contributing to global warming....
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Obama's climate adviser plans to step down
2013-10-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The White House's senior energy and climate adviser, Heather Zichal, is leaving the administration, officials said Monday, despite the president's entreaties to stay. Zichal, who has spent five years in the Obama administration coordinating the work of multiple agencies on issues ranging from air quality to global warming, played an instrumental role in pushing for stricter fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants. In an effort...
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Former Microsoft privacy adviser: 'I don't trust Microsoft now'
2013-10-01 14:13:39| InfoWorld: Top News
Caspar Bowden, who authored Microsoft's privacy policy between 2002 and 2011 for 40 countries, said this week that he distrusts his former employer and has gone so far as to ditch his mobile phone.
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The Travel Adviser: Live and learn and learn again
2013-09-29 11:28:44| Airlines - Topix.net
What costs over $10,000, is an escape in the middle of the night and leads to an encounter with unsavory characters? What costs over $10,000, is an escape in the middle of the night and leads to an encounter with unsavory characters? Our heroine of the story comes with a bit of backgroud - her father helped unseat an Israeli prime minister and a ... (more)
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