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Australia: World's burning, but mind how you feel
2013-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It's liberating, throwing caution to the wind. From now on, I'm going to live my life based on how I ''instinctively feel''. And I'm in good company. Former prime minister John Howard set the mark last week in London, when he told the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a gathering of climate ''agnostics'' and ''sceptics'', that the ''high tide of public support for over-zealous action on global warming has passed''. ''My suspicion is that most people in countries like ours have settled into...
Oil train explodes in rural Alabama leaving 11 flaming cars derailed and burning
2013-11-09 01:32:57| Real Estate - Topix.net
A 90-car train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in moving oil by rail.
United Kingdom: We can still celebrate bonfire night without burning toxic waste
2013-11-05 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "Bonfire night kills whales" is the sort of headline that gives environmentalists a bad name. But the facts can't be helped, even if the messengers must be shot for sounding like killjoys. Most communities have festivals of subversion, in which the rules by which they live for the rest of the year placid, ordered and obedient are upended in a marvellous explosion of chaos. Without these festivals - May day, Holi, Carnival, the Day of the Dead, Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes night are examples -...
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Power Plants Try Burning Wood With Coal to Cut Emissions
2013-11-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Even as the Environmental Protection Agency considers requiring existing coal-fired power plants to cut their carbon dioxide output, some utilities have started to use a decidedly low-tech additive that accomplishes that goal: wood. Ranging in size from sawdust to chunks as big as soup cans, waste wood from paper mills, furniture factories and logging operations has been used with varying levels of success. Minnesota Power, which once generated almost all of its power from coal and is now trying...
Police officers, retired firefighter rescue boy from burning house
2013-10-28 23:54:00| Grocery - Topix.net
Two Burlington police officers - and a retired firefighter who was close by - helped rescue a young boy from a burning home Sunday morning.
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