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The vicious cycle that makes people afraid to talk about climate change
2016-06-12 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: If you want to understand why it is that on a planet wracked by climate change, people still dont talk much about climate change, then this may be the key: Theyre people. Or, more specifically, theyre evolved social mammals who are acutely attuned to how they are perceived by the other evolved social mammals around them -- and reasonably so, because those perceptions greatly influence their own lives. Such is the upshot of new research on why people self-silence when it comes to climate...
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'A vicious cycle for commodities'
2016-01-13 12:28:01| Energy - Topix.net
The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a measure of returns for 22 raw materials, has tumbled more than 4 percent in 2016. That's the worst start to a year since the comparable data begins in 1992.
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A vicious cycle on Western wildfires
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: The announcement from U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell was an ominous one. With firefighting money running out, last month he ordered managers to divert money from other programs to fund firefighting. On the one hand, it makes sense. At the height of firefighting season, you cannot risk having no cash to pay for fire suppression. It has happened so often it has a nickname: Fire borrowing. The trouble with that scenario is it siphons money from the programs designed to lessen the...
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