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Climate Activists Torqued By Obama Nobel

With US the biggest obstacle to action, they hope prize acts as stick

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 10:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Taliban and conservative commentators in the US aren’t the only ones steamed by Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. “It’s hard for me to emphasize enough the thickness of the international resentment towards America at the climate negotiation level,” Ben Jervey... Read full story »

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