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Shift from fossil fuels risks popping 'carbon bubble': World Bank
2015-10-10 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The transition from fossil fuels must be carefully managed to avoid an economically disastrous bursting of the "carbon bubble," the World Bank's top climate official said on Saturday. Decades of reliance on oil, gas and coal have made them central to the global economy, and polluting industries risk a potentially catastrophic crash as the world shifts to alternative energies, said Rachel Kyte, the Bank's special envoy for climate change. "If we accept that we need to have less carbon in our...
Dale Vince: Scrap subsidies for nuclear and fossil fuels to create level playing field
2015-10-06 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: As RenewableUKs State of the Industry report is released today, Britains leading green energy company Ecotricity has challenged the Government to scrap subsidies for nuclear power and fossil fuels to create a level playing field after it slashes support for renewable energy. RenewableUKs State of the Industry report, found the industry had enjoyed incredible recent success with 25% of the UKs electricity now generated from renewable sources. Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said: RenewableUKs...
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Exxon's own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago
2015-09-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity. "In the first place, there is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through...
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Burning All of the Worlds Fossil Fuels Would Completely Melt the Antarctic Ice Sheet
2015-09-14 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Heres another argument for keeping the worlds fossil fuels in the ground: If all the coal, gas and oil on Earth is extracted and burned, the Antarctic ice sheet will melt entirely, scientists warn in a new blockbuster study published last Friday in the research journal Science Advances. The mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become...
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Burning all fossil fuels would 'eliminate' Antarctic ice, lift seas 58m: study
2015-09-11 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Burning all available fossil fuels would "eliminate" the giant ice sheets of Antarctica and lift sea levels by 58 metres, enough to inundate major coastal cities, according to US and Europe-based researchers. The combustion of available coal, oil and gas reserves would result in 10,000 billion tonnes of carbon emissions, and ensure West and East Antarctic ice sheets are destabilised and would ultimately melt, the study published on Saturday in Science Advances found. While the process could...
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