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What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic
2015-10-10 15:56:11| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The board's response: Exxon had studied the science of global warming and concluded it was too murky to warrant action. The company's "examination of the issue supports the conclusions that the facts today and the projection of future effects are very unclear."
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What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic
2015-10-10 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the worlds largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its production plants and facilities. The boards response: Exxon had studied the science of global warming and concluded it was too murky to warrant action. The companys examination of the issue supports the conclusions that the facts today and the projection of future...
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Unexpected information about Earth's climate history from Yellow River sediment
2015-10-09 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: By meticulously examining sediments in China's Yellow River, a Swedish-Chinese research group are showing that the history of tectonic and climate evolution on Earth may need to be rewritten. Their findings are published today in the highly reputed journal Nature Communications. To reconstruct how the global climate and topography of the Earth's surface have developed over millions of years, deposits of eroded land sediment transported by rivers to ocean depths are often used. This process is...
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Earth's record streak of record heat keeps on sizzling
2015-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Earth's record-breaking heat is sounding an awful lot like a broken record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that August, this past summer and the first eight months of 2015 all smashed global records for heat. That's the fifth straight record hot season in a row and the fourth consecutive record hot month. Meteorologists say 2015 is a near certainty to eclipse 2014 as the hottest year on record. This year, six of the eight months have been record breaking,...
DARPA wants to build a robotic waystation in Earths orbit
2015-09-15 16:10:32| Extremetech
DARPA has big plans for space -- and this is the big plan that might make the others possible.
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