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Climate scepticism blamed as Owen Paterson slashes spending on global warming

2014-01-26 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Owen Paterson has been accused of incredible complacency over climate change after new figures showed his department has slashed spending on helping Britain cope with global warming. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend just 17.2m on domestic climate change initiatives this financial year, a 41 per cent decline on the previous 12 months, according to its response to a freedom of information request. The figures will fuel fears that the Environment Secretarys...

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Owen Paterson alarms campaigners with plan to build on ancient woods

2014-01-05 08:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Developers will be given "carte blanche' to concrete over swathes of irreplaceable ancient woodland under proposals to ease planning restrictions on building in the countryside, campaigners have warned. Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, is facing a backlash after suggesting that developers should be allowed to bulldoze historic woods to make way for new homes if they promise to plant trees elsewhere. MPs and countryside campaigners have reacted furiously to the plans, which they say...

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NJ Transit bus slides into building in Paterson

2014-01-03 16:27:37| Railroads - Topix.net

A NJ Transit bus slid down 4 Ave and struck a fire hydrant before slamming backwards into a warehouse at E 26th St Friday morning.

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United Kingdom: Owen Paterson v the science of climate change

2013-09-30 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The UK environment secretary, Owen Paterson, has told a fringe meeting at the Conservative party conference: "People get very emotional about this subject [climate change] and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries." The UN's climate science panel, the IPCC, said last Friday: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia It is extremely likely that human influence...

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