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Worldwide Support For an Ambitious Climate Change Deal Is Faltering, New Poll Says
2015-11-27 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A new poll released ahead of the U.N.-led climate change conference in Paris says that support around the world for an ambitious global climate-change deal has slipped in recent years. Only four of the 20 countries surveyed displayed majority support for setting lofty targets for the upcoming conference, according to the BBC. Less than half of the people surveyed considered climate change a "very serious" issue, according to the GlobeScan research group, the BBC reports. In 2009, the same...
Climate Change Will Make Bad Borrowers of Govts, S&P Says
2015-11-27 05:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Thailands credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poors. The ratings company has concluded after a study that if the damage to the environment continues unabated, there is no way global economic activity, trade or national budgets will stay unaffected. In other words, climate change will cause credit-rating downgrades. Using data from reinsurance company...
Climate change consequences for people in Canada's Arctic deserves more attention, says researcher
2015-11-27 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The polar bear has become somewhat of an international symbol for the consequences of climate change but some researchers say more work needs to be done on how the disappearing sea ice affects people who call the Arctic home. Climate change is changing the Arctic landscape faster than other regions in fact the change is happening "almost 40 times faster than the models had predicted," said Eric Solomon, director of Arctic Programs at the Vancouver Aquarium. Solomon said Canadians need to...
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2. Takata ignored employees' inflator concerns, report says
2015-11-26 10:25:16| Automakers - Topix.net
Embattled automotive safety products supplier Takata Corp. ignored concerns from employees about misleading and manipulated data provided to Honda Motor Co. about its airbag inflators from as early as 2000, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal .
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MTA hiring 46 officers in state's counterterrorism effort, says Cuomo
2015-11-24 17:26:20| Railroads - Topix.net
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority intends to spend about $3 million to hire nearly four dozen police officers as part of the state's counterterrorism efforts at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal and on the region's rail systems, including the LIRR, the governor announced Monday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority intends to spend about $3 million to hire nearly four dozen police officers as part of the state's counterterrorism efforts at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal and on the region's rail systems, including the LIRR, the governor announced Monday.
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