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The fossil-fuel industrys campaign to mislead American people
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution. Their activities are often compared to those of Big Tobacco denying the health dangers of smoking. Big Tobaccos denial scheme was ultimately found by a federal judge to have amounted to a racketeering enterprise. The Big Tobacco playbook looked something like this: (1) pay scientists to produce studies defending your...
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Fossil-fuel divestment gains momentum with Axa selling coal
2015-05-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Frances largest insurer will scrap holdings in coal companies because of concerns about climate change, broadening support for the fossil-fuel divestment movement to a major mainstream investor. Axa SA Chief Executive Officer Henri de Castries said hes working to sell 500 million euros ($559 million) of coal assets and triple green investments to 3 billion euros by 2020. He joined investors in Paris saying companies must act to contain global warming. There is one thing which is absolutely...
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Harvard feels the heat on fossil-fuel divestment
2015-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
In These Times: Divestment goes beyond simply sounding the alarm about climate change to naming a culprit: the fossil fuel industry. The goal is not to hurt companies bottom lines--which a loss of shareholders wont readily accomplish--but to shift popular opinion against the fossil fuel industry and, ultimately, remove its social license to operate. "Push back. Use social media, use the Internet.' That was the advice on climate change that former Vice President Al Gore gave to a packed auditorium at South...
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Britain's leading private university becoming a mouthpiece for fossil-fuel industry
2015-03-30 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Britains leading private university risks becoming a propaganda machine for the fossil fuel industry after it appointed a well-known anti-windfarm campaigner to set up a new energy institute, academics have warned. The University of Buckingham, which already has links to former Chancellor Lord Lawsons climate-sceptic lobby group, the Global Warming Foundation (GWF), has raised further concerns about its academic neutrality by hiring John Constable to head the new unit. Dr Constable is best known...
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Fossil-fuel limits all nations closer after UN deal
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A plan to limit fossil-fuel pollution in all nations for the first time came a step closer as envoys from more than 190 countries agreed on the key parts of a deal they plan to adopt next year to fight global warming. After two weeks of discussions in Peru organized by the United Nations, the diplomats agreed on the detail of pledges from all nations on curbing greenhouse gases. Richer countries gave an assurance theyre on track to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate aid by 2020. The decision...