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Margaret Thatcher, science advice and climate change
2013-04-09 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We've been running a series of essays on scientific advice recently (e.g. yesterday's piece by Shelia Jasanoff). It's on a break today, but here's something on a related issue. Margaret Thatcher is often celebrated for her leadership on the issue of climate change. Read, if you haven't already, her 1989 speech to the UN for example. Or the 1988 one to the Royal Society. Or to the 2nd World Climate Conference in 1990. You might be surprised. The image of Thatcher the global environmental leader...
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United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher: green hero?
2013-04-09 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Margaret Thatcher will be remembered for her short lived "green period" in the late 1980s when she helped put climate change (or global warming as it was then known), acid rain and pollution on to the mainstream political map. Tutored by Sir Crispin Tickell, British ambassador to the UN in New York, she made several dramatic environment speeches. The first, to the Royal Society on 27 September 1988, galvanised the emerging green debate in Britain and helped swell the membership of groups like...
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Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy
2013-04-09 00:43:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Margaret Thatcher's lasting economic legacies
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Margaret Thatcher's impact: the Iron Lady's key policies
2013-04-08 14:58:26| Footwear - Topix.net
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio 4. This was as a result of her decision - whilst Education Secretary in the Heath government of 1970 to 194 - to axe free school milk for seven to 11-year-olds. She was even moved to write about ... (more)
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Margaret Thatcher's impact: the Iron Lady's key policies
2013-04-08 14:54:50| Apparel - Topix.net
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio 4. This was as a result of her decision - whilst Education Secretary in the Heath government of 1970 to 194 - to axe free school milk for seven to 11-year-olds. She was even moved to write about ... (more)
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