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Twitter Slams DOJ 'Inaction' on National Security Data Request
2014-07-31 23:37:59| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Twitter's transparency report lacks national security data, which the DOJ refuses to let the company share.
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Rubin: Climate change inaction will kill economy
2014-07-25 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin says climate change is a "present danger" to the U.S. economy. In a Washington Post op-ed, Rubin writes that the U.S. should incorporate climate change-related finances into yearly budget expenditures for the federal government. "While we cant define future climate-change risks with precision, they should be included in economic policy, fiscal and business decisions because of their potential magnitude," Rubin writes. Rubin's op-ed comes as the Senate...
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EU Study shows huge costs of global warming inaction
2014-06-28 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Inaction on climate change is probably the costliest option for the European Union, which could not only see direct costs of EUR190 billion, but also a net loss of 1.8 percent of its current GDP. Premature mortality accounts for more than half of the overall welfare losses (EUR120 billion), followed by impacts on coasts (EUR42 billion) and agriculture (EUR18 billion). "No action is clearly the most expensive solution of all. Why pay for the damages when we can invest in reducing our climate impacts...
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'Risky Business' report: Climate change inaction cost US billions
2014-06-24 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, billionaire Tom Steyer and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg warn in a new report that rising sea levels, increasing storm surges and warmer temperatures will cost the U.S. billions if little action is taken to mitigate climate change. Paulson, Steyer and Bloomberg head the climate change initiative Risky Business, which released the report Tuesday. "Climate change is the existential issue of our age -- it is cumulative and irreversible, and its...
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Inaction on Energy, Climate Change Risks Global Chaos
2014-05-16 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The crisis in Ukraine has provided the West with a stark reminder of an inconvenient fact: Many of Europes liberal democracies are heavily dependent on Russia for their energy supplies. The latest move by Vladimir Putin in his campaign to destabilize the fragile elected government of Ukraine came this week, as he announced that supplies of natural gas to the country would be cut off at the end of May unless Ukraine pays for them in advance. Ukraine owes Russian gas giant Gazprom $3.5 billion,...
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