It has set up a rapid response team to counter publicity for the film by using two Washington-based groups that lobby for gas and oil companies: the Independent Petroleum Association of America and Energy in Depth.

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In the face of these attacks, scientists are doing more to speak out, forming a Climate Science Rapid Response Team to connect scientists with journalists and a Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help scientists defray legal costs.

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The 15-person staff at Craig's List, the popular community message board, acts as a rapid response team to keep people from harassing each other by name before one of the 150 search engines that index the site grabs the offending page.

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And that team in turn is coordinating on a regular basis on all the facts that are pertaining to this from the Johnson Space Center and a rapid response team from here at the Kennedy Space Center as well as participants from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Yet our Government were called upon to create a rapid response pathology team six years ago.

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Once the miner's symptoms were noted, local carers put him in a makeshift isolation ward and the Ugandan ministry of health sent in its rapid-response team.

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