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Fossil fuel groups warned not to ignore Paris accord
2016-06-06 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Oil, gas and coal companies face financial disaster if they ignore the implications of the Paris climate change accord and should be required to tell investors how they will avoid such threats, a British economist has warned. Lord Nicholas Stern has told a climate task force set up by the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, that the gap is disturbing between what politicians signed up to in the Paris agreement struck in December and what fossil fuel companies are assuming. This gap should...
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Energy superpower status threatened world shifts fossil fuel federal think-tank warn
2016-06-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: How Canada can move to 100% clean energy Could Bay of Fundy tides generate enough power for all of Atlantic Canada? Why green energy prospers as fossil fuel prices fall: Don Pittis Alberta resource revenue plunges to historic low, raising sales tax spectre Caught up in the dispute: How Alberta's economic future is tied to Iran and Saudi Arabia Walking on sunshine: How Okotoks banks heat for homes External Links Canada's status as an "energy superpower" is under threat because the global dominance...
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Fossil Fuel, Wildfire, and Fort McMurray
2016-05-30 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: Four weeks after a wildfire began in the Canadian province of Alberta, thousands of structures in Fort McMurray have been destroyed, over 100,000 people have been evacuated, and 2200 square miles have gone up in smoke. The fire has also shut down commercial extraction of tar sands, a source of fossil fuel and the reason for Fort McMurrays prosperity. Greg Laden points out the perverse cause and effect of it all: tar sands contribute to global warming, global warming contributes to weather variation...
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Fossil fuel darling Ted Cruz demands the feds stop investigating Exxon
2016-05-27 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: He`s baaaack! Just a few weeks after Ted Cruz tucked his three-pronged tail between his legs and headed back to D.C., the Texas senator and one-time presidential hopeful has gone right back to advocating for his real constituents in Congress: Big Oil. The Guardian reports that Cruz, along with four other senators, has demanded that the Department of Justice cease any investigation into whether oil companies lied to the public about climate change. Exxon, which wasn`t specifically mentioned...
Japans Fossil Fuel Power Plants Must Go
2016-05-19 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A letter unveiled in Japans capital Tokyo today includes eighty organisations urging Japan to change the way they use fossil fuels. The organisations have asked Japan to announce that they will commit to ending all fossil fuel financing by next year at the G7 summit. The latest climate change research shows that to avoid the worst effects of climate change we should not build any more fossil fuel power plants after 2017. This letter builds on international protests in March and April when activists...
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