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Australian Treasury chief Martin Parkinson says climate refugees inevitable
2014-04-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson has told an audience in Washington it appeared inevitable that Australia would have to resettle climate change refugees in the coming decades. Dr Parkinson had just given a speech about international economic co-operation at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies when an audience member from Fiji asked a question that deftly linked two of the Australian government's most sensitive issues - climate change and refugee policy. He wanted to know what role...
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Why climate change is inevitable
2014-01-24 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week: Have you cut your energy consumption -- and greenhouse gas emissions -- by 40 percent in recent years? Didn't think so. Neither have I, or many of the other seven billion people on the planet. In a draft of their final report that was leaked last week to The New York Times, scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have concluded that the world is not heeding their repeated warnings, and that mankind's heavy use of fossil fuels -- and emissions of carbon dioxide -- are increasing,...
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Tully Sugar CEO Alick Osborne says a new raw sugar supply agreement is inevitable
2013-11-12 07:28:28| Sugar Industry News
CEO Alick Osborne was not at Tully Sugar during the takeover in 2011; but he was the managing director of Louis Dreyfus Commodities Australia
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Shipyards face up to the inevitable
2013-11-06 13:48:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Too many UK shipyards are chasing too few warship orders
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Preparing for inevitable: What we still dont understand about natural disasters
2013-10-27 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Some natural disasters -- the earth-shattering, world-ending kind -- we can`t prepare for. But smaller disasters, cataclysmic on a local scale, strike all the time. And yet each time they do, they never fail to take us by surprise. The problem isn`t so much that we can`t anticipate disasters, says geologist Susan W. Kieffer, but that the public, and policy makers, don`t understand the way they work as well as they should. In "The Dynamics of Disaster," Kieffer, a professor emerita of geology at...
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