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    Climate change brings more crime: study

    Disclaimer: I do not endorse or deny the following. Climate change brings more crime: study A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures—on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis—are likely to produce more crime. The study by Matthew...
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    Oilsands study confirms tailings found in groundwater, river

    Oilsands study confirms tailings found in groundwater, river New federal research has confirmed that water from vast oilsands tailings ponds is leaching into groundwater and seeping into the Athabasca River. Previous studies using models have estimated the leakage at 6.5 million litres a day...
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    Bill would end Elections Canada vote drives

    Are these guys ****ing sinister or what?? Bill would end Elections Canada vote drives Among the controversial proposals in the Conservative government's proposed Fair Elections Act is one to eliminate Elections Canada campaigns encouraging Canadians to vote - no matter who for. Pierre...
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    Keystone XL access through Nebraska shut down by judge

    Keystone XL access through Nebraska shut down by judge The hurdles standing before the Keystone XL pipeline project grew ever taller Wednesday as a Nebraska court dealt the long-delayed project another significant setback. A district judge ripped up a state law that might have been used to...
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    Europe and U.S. Threaten Sanctions Over Kiev Bloodshed

    Europe and U.S. Threaten Sanctions Over Kiev Bloodshed BRUSSELS — Expressing alarm at the lethal escalation of political violence in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States scrambled for a quick response Wednesday, threatening punitive sanctions against senior figures in the Ukrainian...
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    Twitter account parodying Rob Ford suspended

    Twitter account parodying Rob Ford suspended Did Mayor Rob Ford order a Twitter account parodying him suspended? That's what some Twitter users are claiming on Wednesday, as Richard Feren's Twitter satire persona @TOMayorFrod was suddenly suspended from the social media service...
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    Catholic Church withholding millions from victims

    Catholic Church withholding millions from victims Court documents obtained by CBC News allege that the Catholic Church is withholding millions from former students of Indian residential schools. The church was part of the Indian residential school settlement reached in 2006. While the...
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    Scientists: Polar Vortex is now Santa's Revenge

    I'll take the bet that there is some link. It may be true or not, but seems to make perfect logical sense to me. Of course it's exponentially more likely that this is an orchestrated ruse to promote some scandalous socialism. Mmmmmm..... Scaaaaandalous sooooocialism.
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    Scientists: Polar Vortex is now Santa's Revenge

    It sounds like a conspiracy, doesn't it?
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    John Kerry blasts climate change deniers, 'shoddy scientists'

    Johnny's been hitting all the right notes these days! John Kerry blasts climate change deniers, 'shoddy scientists' Climate change may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction and urgent action is needed to combat it, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday...
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    Scientists: Polar Vortex is now Santa's Revenge

    You guys just can't handle Santa's semen.
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    Scientists: Polar Vortex is now Santa's Revenge

    I thought you guys would enjoy the idea of a Sinister Santa. Lol @ climategonewild
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    Scientists: Polar Vortex is now Santa's Revenge

    Santa’s revenge: new evidence supports link between climate change, severe weather Scientists call it Santa’s revenge. It’s the theory that persistent weather patterns at the mid-latitudes – like this winter’s tediously long-lasting polar vortex or California’s severe drought – are a direct...
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    Video of Manhattan sized glacier breaking off into sea

    A Hunk Of Planet Dissolves Before Our Eyes It begins with a growl. Then there's a crack — a slurpy, sucky, crunchy noise. A guy is on the phone, and his pal interrupts him and says, "It's starting, Adam, I think. Adam? It's starting ..." The two are up on a bluff, overlooking a giant ice field...
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    Maps show expected redistribution of global species due to climate change

    Yea I would say we'll see some significant global destruction in a few hundred years if we carry on as is.
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    Maps show expected redistribution of global species due to climate change

    Maps show expected redistribution of global species due to climate change As climate change unfolds over the next century, plants and animals will need to adapt or shift locations to follow their ideal climate. A new study provides an innovative global map of where species are likely to succeed...
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    Kerry tells N Korea to get "real"

    Kerry tells N Korea to get "real" SEOUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday welcomed new high-level talks between North and South Korea, while warning Pyongyang against trying to derail an upcoming South Korea-US military exercise. Kerry, in Seoul to discuss North Korea's nuclear...
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    Flaherty against Harper’s tax cut promise

    Our Conservative finance minister is a socialist? Flaherty comes out against Harper’s tax cut promise OTTAWA—Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has come out strongly against one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s key tax cut promises. Coming a day after the federal budget, Flaherty’s questioning...
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    Scientists link Britain’s extreme weather to climate change

    Scientists link Britain’s extreme weather to climate change LONDON—Britain’s weather service says it sees the tentacles of climate change in a spate of storms and floods battering the country, but has stopped short of saying warming directly caused the extreme storms. The latest round of bad...