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United Kingdom: Ttruth about David Cameron fracking fairytale
2014-01-26 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Davos tends to turn the hardest of heads. During the annual meetings, where businesses pay big bucks to rub shoulders with political leaders and thinkers, a contagious aura of smugness fills this Alpine valley like a fog, killing much sense of reality. Politicians need a quick corridor story to sell their country's virtues, and David Cameron has landed on a peculiarly ill-informed one. Most narratives are falsifiable only with the passage of time, but Cameron's story is demonstrably a fairytale...
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Bono, Cameron talk poverty, climate at AP debate
2014-01-24 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global leaders argued Friday that efforts to eradicate poverty must be linked to climate change, saying that rising temperatures will have widespread effects on everything from food supplies to education. Panelists at two separate sessions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- among them Bill Gates, Al Gore and U2 frontman Bono -- underlined the importance of the issue. The United Nations is also making climate change a priority at Davos this year, pushing for a U.N.-brokered internationally...
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Cameron: 'Patience' needed on economy
2014-01-23 18:27:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The prime minister David Cameron tells the BBC that the UK economic recovery will take time and patience, and must be driven by manufacturing as well as services.
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United Kingdom: 'We're going all out for shale,' admits David Cameron
2014-01-13 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron is to declarethat his government is "going all out for shale" as he announces that councils will be entitled to keep 100% of business rates raised from fracking sites in a deal expected to generate millions of pounds for local authorities. In a renewed attempt to win support for the controversial expansion of fracking, the prime minister will also say that revenues generated by shale gas companies could be paid directly in cash to homeowners living nearby. The prime minister's...
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Scientists back David Cameron on weather link to global warming
2014-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Climate scientists have backed David Camerons statement that he very much suspects the recent extreme weather events Britain has suffered are linked to climate change. The prime ministers words in the House of Commons this week annoyed some Conservative MPs who are sceptical about man-made climate change. But leading climate scientists told a press briefing in London on Friday that abnormal weather, such as the succession of storms that made December one of the UKs wettest and windiest on...
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