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SAfrican Lira dedicating Zulu love song to Obamas
2013-01-18 16:42:35| Automakers - Topix.net
People with severe food allergies have a new tool in their effort to find menus that fit their diet: federal disabilities law.
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Obama's Climate Challenge
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rolling Stone: Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. After promising in 2008 that his presidency would be "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," President Obama went silent on the most crucial issue of our time. He failed to talk openly with Americans about the risks of continuing to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, failed to put political muscle behind legislation to cap carbon pollution, failed...
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Obama's missing priority: climate change
2013-01-18 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Sun-Times: The early focus of President Barack Obamas second term, which begins next week, is taking shape. The fiscal mess tops his agenda, along with gun control and immigration reform. All important topics, ones demanding action. But the list is incomplete. In the early days of Obamas second term, which is when presidents have the best shot at success, expectations are low that well see movement on climate change. Heres the problem: Global warming cant and wont wait. The planet is growing...
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Ken Salazar leaves contested legacy as Obama's interior secretary
2013-01-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's top adviser on oil drilling and the management of America's last wide open spaces announced on Wednesday that he would leave the cabinet by March. The departure of Ken Salazar as interior secretary leaves Obama with virtually a clean slate to remake his energy and environmental team. The only other original member of Obama's original green "dream team", the Nobel prize-winning energy secretary Steven Chu, is also expected to step down at the start of Obama's second term. As interior...
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Climate change activists turn to plans, persuasion, prayer in Obama's second term
2013-01-16 01:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Miami Herald: Just before he and other environmentalists marched to the White House on Tuesday, climate change activist James Hansen warned he wouldnt be able to be arrested with them this time. Hansen, a NASA scientist by day and an activist on his own time, had to be available for a press conference in the afternoon announcing that worldwide temperatures in 2012 were in the top 10 hottest ever recorded. Id be honored to be arrested with you, Hansen said. A few hours later, he declined to discuss politics...
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