Monthly Archives: October 2011

Pension age concession bid blocked

31 October 2011 05:17pm Labour have failed to force ministers to go further in helping thousands of women who will lose out from the raising of the state pension age to 66 in 2020. Ministers have already come up with … Continue reading

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Sticking it to the Mann: Climate scientist sparks protest

MINNEAPOLIS — The annual meeting of the Geological Society of America isn’t the type of affair one might associate with outrage among the citizenry — or anyone, really. NBC News Is the tide turning in Thailand’s floods? Updated 99 minutes … Continue reading

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When can we attribute extreme events to climate change?

Moscow suffered from a severe heat wave in the summer of 2010, with temperatures reaching 101 degrees and an average temperature 14 degrees higher than normal for July.  What are the odds that the heat wave was due to climate … Continue reading

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Has Mitt Romney become a climate-change skeptic?

The GOP presidential frontrunner always said that man-made pollution played a role in global warming. Has he suddenly changed his mind? Once again, Mitt Romney is being accused of flip-flopping. As governor of Massachusetts, and later as a 2008 GOP … Continue reading

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Global Warming Is Back

Inconvenient truth? Or just a major inconvenience? Either way, a late October snow storm has dumped more than two feet of the white stuff across certain parts of the American Northeast – leaving nearly 3 million Americans without power. At … Continue reading

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Richard Muller, Koch brothers-funded scientist, declares global warming is real

One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is changing is his tune. Richard Muller, a physicist who spent two years trying to see if mainstream climate scientists were wrong about the earth’s climate changes, determined that they were right, … Continue reading

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Rwanda : No Data On Climate Change – Experts

Government Supporting Daily 29 October 2011 Kigali — Experts attending the third Nile Basin Development Forum have expressed concerns over lack of climate change statistics. They noted that the shortage of the data has a great impact on financing since … Continue reading

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Nigeria : House Seeks Legislation On Climate Change

Onwuka Nzeshi 31 October 2011 Following the recent incidents of devastating floods in Lagos, Ibadan and other parts of the country, the House of Representatives has commenced the process of enacting legislation on climate change. The lower chamber of the … Continue reading

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Zimbabwe: Hot Temperatures – Wake Up Call to Fight Global Warming

Published by the government of Zimbabwe 31 October 2011 opinion If global warming could be defined by the hot weather conditions that roasted Zimbabwe last week, then we are in for some serious cooking. Fortunately, such isolated events cannot be … Continue reading

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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation, whose founder is a major funder of skeptic groups and the tea party. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, run a large privately held company involved … Continue reading

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