24319 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://climatechangedispatch.com/cbs-news-peddles-climate-attribution-misinfo-on-canadian-wildfires/Written by on Sep 29, 2023 . Posted in Latest news CBS News Peddles Climate-Attribution Misinfo On Canadian Wildfires. CBS News ran a story claiming that Canada’s severe wildfires this year were due to climate change. This is false. Although Canada’s wildfires this year were large and did cause....2023-09-29T22:00+0200climatechangedispatch-68822b307e4a7336d223c0ddba2d3b3720230929220000https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/cutting-1b-from-our-already-underfunded-military-is-simply-preposterous/wcm/6403b608-35b3-4e1c-9f65-ab9868435c8eLet’s see what might be the results of these cuts. First, all procurement projects will be revised and most likely several will be descoped — meaning they will be delayed or the spending spread to further out years. This would be less of a problem if the need for new equipment was not as dire as it is now.2023-09-29T21:56+0200ottawacitizen-85c79894291505af1d53c0ce7cb1710620230929215600https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/as-global-threats-grow-trudeau-looks-to-slash-defence-spendingWhile the $15 billion in spending cuts sounds drastic, it actually amounts to just 3.2% of the government’s projected spending for next year. The more than $900 million in cuts to the military budget amounts to a nearly 6% cut for the military though. “There’s no way that you can take almost a....2023-09-29T21:56+0200torontosun-02885256978a71371eb325e47bc20e0020230929215600https://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/story/8369324/summer-arctic-ice-covered-in-snow-baffling-scientists/?cs=5Unusually large quantities of snow are covering the sea ice in the Arctic in the warmer months of August and September, according to a scientist. The rare weather pattern was noted by Marcel Nicolaus, a sea ice physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, who studies the region.2023-09-29T21:36+0200portstephensexaminer-e8d872299d70217e1753bb4a6bbd0ed520230929213600