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Obama plan gives US leverage in climate talks with China, official says
2013-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A top International Energy Agency (IEA) official said the White House global warming plan that includes carbon standards for power plants would help provide the U.S. leverage in climate negotiations with China. It shows the U.S. is willing to take action, and China, I think, is willing to take action if the U.S. does. I think it is a very positive step, said Richard Jones, the IEAs deputy executive director who was previously a senior State Department diplomat, on Tuesday at an energy and climate...
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Hulu likely to lose next-day episodes after sale, Eisner says
2013-07-11 15:20:31| CNET News.com
The former head of Disney, one of Hulu's parents selling the streaming-video site, tells Bloomberg that whoever buys is likely to follow a Netflix route rather than stream TV repeats right after they air. [Read more]
The Shard protest isn't just about the Arctic: it's a victory for women, says Greenpeace
2013-07-11 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It was going to happen eventually. Attempting to climb the tallest building in Britain must be on the to-do lists of all avid climbers in Britain, and the world for that matter. That it is six women who are climbing the Shard in protest at oil and gas drilling in the Arctic today is not insignificant. Why six women? Why not a mixture of men and women, or - as many people might have been forgiven for assuming - six men? "Why not women? These are the people who discussed it and up for doing it,"...
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Some Trees Use Less Water Amid Rising Carbon Dioxide, Paper Says
2013-07-11 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The fate of the worlds forests on a warming planet has long been one of the great unanswered questions about climate change. Now, new research is complicating the picture further, suggesting that big shifts are already under way in how forests work. A paper published Wednesday suggests that trees in at least some parts of the world are having to pull less water out of the ground to achieve a given amount of growth. Some scientists say they believe that this may be a direct response to the rising...
PC slump shows no sign of slowing, Gartner says
2013-07-10 23:25:07| CNET News.com
A 10.9 percent drop marks the fifth consecutive quarter of shipment declines, the longest duration of a drop in the PC market's history. [Read more]
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