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Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor
2013-02-06 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said Government and local authorities are failing to grasp the risks to Britain for global warming. He accused people of focusing on the chance of warmer evenings, rather than realising heatwaves will cause deaths. "We may like to think of it as a nice café culture, sitting outside sipping lattes -- but we will be struggling to sleep because our buildings won't cool down at night. "That's when you see the...
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HP considering company 'breakup,' says report
2013-02-06 02:18:38| CNET News.com
Board of world's No. 1 supplier of PCs by shipment is reportedly looking at options to "obtain maximum value for shareholders." One of those options involves splitting up into smaller companies. [Read more]
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Pinterest shooting for $2.5 billion valuation, report says
2013-02-06 00:30:29| CNET News.com
The scrapbooking site is reportedly ready to raise more money. Whether it will do so on the lofty terms it wants remains to be seen. [Read more]
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Obama Failing on Public Lands, Former Interior Secretary Says
2013-02-05 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Bruce Babbitt, the interior secretary in the Clinton administration and a former governor of Arizona, made one of his periodic forays out of the political wilderness on Tuesday to criticize the Obama administration for favoring oil and gas development over conservation on public lands. Mr. Babbitt, 74, whose modest demeanor masked the sharpness of his critique of a fellow Democrat, said in a speech at the National Press Club that Mr. Obama was falling behind many of his predecessors in setting...
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More Vacation Time = Less Climate Change, Says Economist
2013-02-05 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politix: A think tank economist is proposing to dial down global warming by cutting working hours. David Rosnick of the Center for Economic Policy Research claims that if the US were to adopt a more European form of capitalism - which manages to maintain high levels of productivity while granting more vacation time to workers - it could help reduce global warming. "A significant reduction in climate change is possible by choosing a more European response to productivity gains," he writes, "rather than...
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