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Poll Shows Decline in UK Public Conviction About Climate Change

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Overall around nine out of 10 people questioned still appear to accept some degree of global warming. One year ago this number was one in three, but this year just one in five people believes global warming to be man-made, according to Edward Langley, Ipsos Mori’s head of environment research. 3% said they did not know.

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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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BBC Archive ] I find the sound effects in this video to be very confusing. Wing ] Globalfoundries, a global semiconductor manufacturer, has turned to Spot to further automate their data collection for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. BBC Archive ] I find the sound effects in this video to be very confusing.

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To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

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The first media notice Greta got was from the BBC in September of last year. Now Greta and her cohorts around the world have big plans for a global #ClimateStrike on March 15 and I have no doubt they will exceed expectations. By the end of October she was speaking at the Declaration of Rebellion, at Parliament Square, in London.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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Global 2ºC maximal warming limit as compared to past and. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change.

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Electric Pedicabs - future for London's transport

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The truth is that these pedicabs didn't do any harm to the environment. The current big halos about global warming and CO2 emission reductions by the most developed countries should be taken seriously not just in pure words. External resources: BBC NEWS - [link]. Police impounded around 20 pedicabs with electric assist.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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