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China takes on big risks in its push for shale gas
2014-04-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Residents of this isolated mountain valley of terraced cornfields were just going to sleep last April when they were jolted by an enormous roar, followed by a tower of flames. A shock wave rolled across the valley, rattling windows in farmhouses and village shops, and a mysterious, pungent gas swiftly pervaded homes. "It was so scary - everyone who had a car fled the village and the rest of us without cars just stayed and waited to die," said Zhang Mengsu, a hardware store owner. All too quickly,...
Climate change risks
2014-04-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Himalayan: The effects of global warming could spiral 'out of control' if the world does not cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, a United Nations scientific panel warned in a new report on March 31. Climate change projections for Nepal as a whole, which have been mentioned in National Adaptation Plan of Action, 2010, indicate that temperatures will increase by 1.40 degrees Celsius by 2030, 2.80 degrees by 2060 and 4.70 degrees by 2090. As temperatures rise, experts say, Nepal will experience more erratic...
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Great Managers Work To Take Calculated Risks
2014-04-11 00:43:00| Beef
Great managers take calculated risks. They embrace them and have the confidence to overcome them. That is the essential key to risk not avoiding it, but accepting it and focusing on doing what is possible to maximize the chances for success and minimize the potential for failure. My View From The Country read more
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Three-quarters of World Bank-backed projects still don't evaluate climate risks: Report
2014-04-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The World Bank is still failing to take climate change into account as it makes decisions about the projects it finances, according to a new report from the nonprofit World Resources Institute. The impacts of climate change were only taken into consideration in a quarter of all projects the bank approved between January 2012 and June 2013. World Resources Institute looked at a selection of projects that would reasonably be expected to undergo some sort of climate impact assessment. The World Bank...
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Crude oil trains revive Philadelphia refineries but deliver new risks
2014-04-08 14:56:06| Energy - Topix.net
Now, they're humming again with the daily deliveries of domestic crude in mile-long trains.
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