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Hypocrisy redefined for the age of warming
2013-04-07 14:38:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Orion: THE LIST OF REASONS for not acting on climate change is long and ever-shifting. First it was "there`s no problem"; then it was "the problem`s so large there`s no hope." There`s "China burns stuff too," and "it would hurt the economy," and, of course, "it would hurt the economy." The excuses are getting tired, though. Post Sandy (which hurt the economy to the tune of $100 billion) and the drought ($150 billion), 74 percent of Americans have decided they`re very concerned about climate change and want...
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Nuclear power is our only hope, or, the greatest environmentalist hypocrisy of all time
2013-02-11 17:19:00| Extremetech
To call one's self an environmentalist while campaigning against nuclear power (and thus, in a direct and unavoidable way, in favor of coal power) is no longer possible.
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Fiscal cliff give-away to big biotech firm exposes deficit hypocrisy
2013-01-22 22:51:02| Biotech - Topix.net
Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the "fiscal cliff" bill that did not mention the company by name but strongly favored one of its drugs.
Government hypocrisy on major projects will lock in climate chaos
2013-01-22 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned massive global increase in emissions from coal, oil and gas projects. The 14 carbon intensive projects highlighted in the Point of No Return report range from massive coal expansion in Australia, China, the US and Indonesia, to oil expansion in the tar sands of Canada, the Arctic and Brazil...
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France: Francois Hollande accused of climate change hypocrisy
2013-01-15 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: French President Francois Hollande has been accused of hypocrisy over his commitment to renewable energy and climate change. Hollande told an audience in Abu Dhabi that a failure to invest in renewable energy would lead to catastrophe. This message is in stark contrast to his afternoon appointment with the President of the UAE to lobby for a major oil and gas contract on behalf of French firm Total. President Hollande is playing a double game on the climate issue, Morgane Créach, director...
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