Comment UK December 2009

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Comment Global Failure at such a grand level means we have to act locally, Lord Hunt, visiting professor at Delft University and a former director general of the UK Meteorological Office, 19 December [1] topic, topic Climate change, Climate Sceptics and Open Data, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, December 5 [2] topic "To be validated, knowledge must also be subject to the scrutiny of an extended community of citizens who have legitimate stakes in the significance of what is being claimed", Mike Hulme of UEA and Jerome Ravetz of Oxford Univeristy, 1 December [3] topic References ↑ The Observer, 19 December 2009 ↑ Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, December 5th, 2009 ↑ news.bbc.co.uk, 1 December 2009

• Government should plan for a national Oyster card for the UK, not just local tickets, so that public transport can provide a real door-to-door alternative to the car. Campaign for Better Transport, 15 December ^[1] topic

• The Department of Ignorance, December 8 ^[2] topic

• £5 earnings cap, the amount people on benefits are allowed to keep when they get a job, has not been increased since 1988, and is equal to less than one hour’s minimum wage, The Need not Greed coalition, 04 Dec ^[3] topic

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1. ↑ Campaign for Better Transport, 15 December 2009
2. ↑ Living with rats, December 8, 2009
3. ↑ Need Not Greed, 04 Dec 2009