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Keystone 'not even nominal benefit' US consumers, Obama says
2014-12-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama on Friday said building the Keystone oil pipeline would not even have a nominal benefit to consumers, pushing back at claims it would lower gas prices further. Obama stressed that the issue at hand for Keystone is not American oil, it is Canadian oil. That oil currently is being shipped out through rail or trucks and it would save Canadian oil companies, and the Canadian oil industry enormous amounts of money if they could simply pipe it all the way down to the Gulf, Obama...
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Clearing Rainforests Distorts Global Rainfall & Agriculture, Study Says
2014-12-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Clearing forests not only releases carbon into the atmosphere, it also triggers worldwide shifts in rainfall and temperatures that are just as potent as those caused by current carbon pollution and that pose great risk to future agricultural productivity, researchers report. Deforestation in South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa may alter growing conditions in agricultural areas as far away as the U.S. Midwest, Europe, and China, the study in Nature Climate Change finds. The researchers calculate...
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Food insecurity due to Ebola to affect a million by March 2015, says UN
2014-12-18 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Two United Nation (UN) agencies have warned that the number of people facing food insecurity due to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone could top one million by March 2015.
Brighter outlook for CSDs but diet versions continue to lose fizz, says analyst
2014-12-17 13:14:09| Beverages - Topix.net
Executives at the top carbonated soft drink firms are more positive on the future of the category in the US, but the decline of diet drinks shows no sign of abating, according to an analyst from Cowen and Company. In an analyst's note, Vivien Azer of equity research firm Cowen and Company said executives at Pepsico, Dr Pepper and Coke were becoming more confident of prospects in CSDs at Beverage Digest's recent conference.
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Climate change: global pressure will make Australia do more, says Cameron
2014-12-17 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global pressure will force Australia to do more on climate change, Britains prime minister, David Cameron, has predicted. Cameron told a committee of British MPs in London he sensed the Australian government recognised it did not want to be the international back marker on the issue. Look, its a sovereign country. It has to make its own decisions. There has obviously been a very big debate in Australia about carbon taxes and prices and all the rest of it, Cameron said as he gave evidence...
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