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2 C temperature rise limit would fall short of safeguarding most countries - study
2015-03-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The 2-degree-Celsius temperature rise limit globally accepted as a means to avoid dangerous climate change is a "mathematical aggregate" and a mere average of data collected from hundreds of climate stations around the world and thrown into climate models to forecast the effects of climate change. It fails to protect those nations most at risk, according to Petra Tschakert, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and coordinating lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's...
Japan Stocks Fall on Bets of U.S. Rate Rise, Weaker Japanese GDP
2015-03-09 21:41:38| Wireless - Topix.net
Japanese stocks fell after U.S. jobs data spurred speculation of an earlier interest-rate increase in the world's largest economy, while a report showed Japan's exit from a recession was weaker than previously reported. Real-estate stocks declined, with Mitsubishi Estate Co.
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Japan Stocks Fall on Bets of U.S. Rate Rise, Weaker Japanese GDP
2015-03-09 12:23:18| Telecom - Topix.net
Japanese stocks fell after U.S. jobs data spurred speculation of an earlier interest-rate increase in the world's largest economy, while a report showed Japan's exit from a recession was weaker than previously reported. Real-estate stocks declined, with Mitsubishi Estate Co.
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The Rise and Fall of Sugar in Hawai'i
2014-09-26 10:37:18| Sugar Industry News
There's one sugar plantation left in Hawai'i, just a few square miles left of an industry that once dominated the island chain. Sugar's profits and high-paying jobs are long gone, as are the native forests and sustainable farms it devoured, thanks to a "voracious need for land and water." In her new book, "Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai'i," Carol MacLennan describes the rise and eventual fall of the sugar planter elite and its consequences, both for the people of Hawai'i and the land itself. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-fall-sugar-hawaii.html#jCp
Industry's hand in rise and fall of Australia's climate law
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott last month steered through Parliament repeal of the country's carbon pricing mechanism, he was cheered on by business associations representing major international and domestic companies. They had campaigned hard for repeal of the scheme, which required about 360 large emitters to pay a fixed price for their emissions, with the intent of moving to a floating price by mid-2015. The scheme's supporters, including influential economy professor Ross Garnaut,...
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