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Fossil fuel use must fall twice as fast to contain global warming - study

2016-02-25 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world: to contain global warming to the limits agreed by 195 nations in Paris last December, they will have to cut fossil fuel combustion at an even faster rate than anybody had predicted. Joeri Rogelj, research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, and European and Canadian colleagues propose in Nature Climate Change that all previous...

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Fossil fuel emissions behind Australia's record-breaking spring heat

2016-02-22 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: World leaders and street protesters were struggling in a heatwave with temperatures hovering around 40C at Brisbanes G20 meeting. Longreach in central Queensland had 13 days straight when the maximum temperature hit 40C (104F) or higher four days longer than the towns previous record. Down in New South Wales and Tasmania, residents fought off bushfires. A few weeks earlier, South Australia had its hottest October on record. This was the spring of 2014, Australias hottest September-November...

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Clinton wants to move toward banning fossil fuel extraction on public land

2016-02-05 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: After the latest Democratic presidential debate on Thursday, Hillary Clinton told an activist with 350.org that she supports banning fossil fuel extraction on public lands. Its a done deal, she said. And when asked a follow-up question, she continued, Thats where the president is moving. No future extraction. I agree with that. The activist, quite literally, cheered. That cheer might have been a tiny bit premature. Clintons quick comments hardly amount to a clear policy proposal. She said...

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Stop Demonizing Fossil Fuel Companies, Warns Global Bank Chief

2016-01-21 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Stuart Gulliver, the boss of global bank HBSC, has made an impassioned plea to activists to stop demonizing the fossil fuel companies. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Gulliver said it was "dangerous' to think that society should abandon the oil, gas and coal industry. He warned of disastrous unintended consequences, in particular for developing countries, if the sector were ostracized, given that it is responsible for a huge numbers of jobs, money for pensions and...

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