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John Kerry's inconsistent, incomplete stance on climate change
2014-02-22 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: In Indonesia on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry boldly called for international action on climate change. He did not mince words when he called climate change perhaps the worlds most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. Given his hesitance to weigh in on the State Departments anemic position on the Keystone XL pipeline, Kerrys words come across as hollow All of peer-reviewed science would say that Kerrys language is accurate and hardly hyperbole. It is refreshing to see that some mainstream...
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China Calls Kerry's Internet Comments 'Nave'
2014-02-18 19:00:40| TechNewsWorld
Maybe they aren't fighting words, but they sure aren't friendly. China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks about Chinese Internet freedom were, shall we say, a bit base. Kerry had a half-hour-plus chat with bloggers Saturday in Beijing, during which time he expressed support for more online freedom in China.
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Reading John Kerry's Mind on the Keystone Pipeline
2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Imagine, if you will, John Kerry's internal monologuehis soliloquy as the State Department prepares to release its final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline designed to funnel tar sands crude from Alberta across the U.S. midsection. After the EIS arrives, Kerry must review whether the pipeline is in the national interesta question that Obama has said rests largely on its climate impacts. Of course, we can't know what Kerry really thinks. Here we take a guess by looking...
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Biden voices hope for Kerry's Mideast efforts
2014-01-13 20:55:12| Airlines - Topix.net
Federal officials are investigating why a Southwest Airlines flight that was supposed to land at Branson Airport in southwest Missouri, instead landed at another airport about 7 miles away that only had about half... By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Southwest Airlines flight bound for the main airport in Branson, Mo., instead touched down at a much ... (more)
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John Kerrys misfire on U.S. performance on Kyoto emissions targets
2013-05-30 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: "We are below the Kyoto levels now. We are below the Waxman-Markey levels. ...We are doing things but nobody is doing enough.' -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry, remarks at Youth Connect with BBC's Hardtalk, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013 "The United States of America today is below Kyoto levels in emissions. People don't know that. The United States today is actually below the Waxman-Markey legislation mandates that didn't pass. So we're doing things -- automobile efficiency, standards,...
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