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A tricky issue - finding the right phrase to cover a seemingly familiar one
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: "Oscar Wilde said the British and the Americans are separated by a common language, and I think that's our problem," said Paul Bledsoe, a former energy and climate adviser in the Clinton administration. Linguistics, he argued, is partially to blame. After all, Bledsoe noted, many E.U. agreements declare themselves "legal" but in fact leave most discretion up to member countries. Others say countries are being purposely hazy, playing fast and loose with language. "Everybody is more or less...
Florida's State Employees are Preparing for Climate Change, Even as Governor Bans Phrase
2015-03-23 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: From years of reporting on government employees, I know that they're in it for the long haul. Governors and news cycles come and go. The public's attention is beagle-fickle. But there are 25 years to go before pension. So I wasn't expecting any heroes to rock the boat from inside the vast bureaucracy that is Florida's government when I began to investigate the silent treatment given the terms "climate change" and "global warming" within state agencies. After we at the Florida Center for Investigative...
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