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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Don’t blame Obama for green failures
Posted by Politico: Darius Dixon on October 12th, 2012
Politico: Instead, environmentalists should turn their anger on Congress, which scuttled carbon cap and trade legislation, said Kennedy, the founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance and son of the slain U.S. senator.
"His principal environmental initiatives, like all of his other initiatives, had been shut down by a Republican Congress,' he said. "For example, cap and trade, which passed [the House] ... was killed by the oil lobby in the U.S. Senate and by Republicans who say, 'If Obama's for it, we're gonna...
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Posted by Politico: Darius Dixon on August 24th, 2011
Politico: Studying conflicts occurring between 1950 and 2004, the probability of new violence throughout tropical regions of the world double during the hot, dry periods of El Niño years relative to cool, wet La Niña conditions. The data included 175 countries and 234 conflicts.
Overall, the team calculated that El Niño may have played a role in a fifth of civil wars worldwide during the span of the study.
"We believe that these findings represent the first major evidence that the global climate is a...