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The shocking disappearance of England's east coast
2013-05-05 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Holidaymakers visiting familiar sandy beaches along the east coast of England this weekend will have got a shock. Vast quantities of sand have disappeared, cliffs have collapsed, and familiar paths to the beach have had to be roped off because they end in a sudden drop. The culprit has been the unusually bleak winter weather. Weeks of northeasterly gales in the last three months have taken as much as seven metres depth of sand off beaches of Norfolk and Suffolk, and eroded soft material from cliffs...
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From EPA: Regrets, Then Shocking Release of Information
2013-02-22 15:39:00| National Hog Farmer
Last week, outgoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Lisa Jackson was quoted in the Huffington Post as saying her biggest regret was related to her relationship with rural America. She said, If I were starting again, I would from day one make a much stronger effort to do personal outreach in rural America. Had I known that these myths about everything from cow flatulence to spilled milk could be seen as The EPA is coming to get you,' I would have spent more time trying to inoculate against that." Now, this week, there is shocking evidence that EPA may have put U.S. farmers in danger.National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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United Kingdom: MPs say wind farm contracts are 'shocking'
2013-01-13 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Families could face higher electricity bills as a result of "shocking" blunders in awarding new contracts for offshore wind farms, a group of MPs has warned. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals worth 17bn, agreed with companies for transmitting wind power to the mainland, showed that the Government had failed to learn from earlier poor PFI contracts and the costs would eventually be passed on to consumers, the Public Accounts Committee said. A report published today looks at the "elaborate"...
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