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Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates
2015-06-26 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday. Pulling money out of carbon-heavy industry must be coupled with large spending on alternative technologies to make any difference, said the Microsoft mogul who is under fire for his charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's reported $1.4-billion (1.3-billion-euro) investment in carbon-spewing companies like BP. The Financial Times reported...
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Fossil fuel memes: oil spills are a beach
2015-06-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Life on the beach isnt always a vacation. Here are some postcards that nobody would want to send, courtesy of fossil fuels
The fossil fuel divestment movement: top 10 campaign stunts
2015-06-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: From giant carbon bubbles to human oil slicks the divestment campaign has been driven by young people and created some of the most imaginative protests
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Journals investigate climate skeptic authors ties fossil fuel firm as new allegations arise
2015-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: A half-dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei-Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published. And the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is examining fresh allegationsmade in a report released today by the advocacy group Climate Investigations Center (CIC)that Soon failed to follow disclosure rules in...
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G7 leaders agree to phase out fossil fuel use by end of century
2015-06-08 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The G7 leading industrial nations have agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has announced. On the final day of talks in a Bavarian castle, Merkel said the Group of Seven leaders had committed themselves to the need to decarbonise the global economy in the course of this century. Environmental lobbyists described the announcement as a hopeful sign that plans for complete decarbonisation could...
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