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China Seeks to Cap Fossil Fuel Emissions for First Time
2014-06-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China is working on how to cap its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, an effort that would spur the worldwide effort to hold back climate change. The worlds biggest producer of fossil fuel emissions has been studying for more than a year how and when it might be able to make its pollution levels peak and hopes to act as soon as possible, said Xie Zhenhua, Chinas lead envoy to the United Nations global warming talks. China will behave in a very responsible way for Chinese people...
Divestment of fossil fuel companies is misguided
2014-05-27 05:05:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Pittsfield Democrat Senator Benjamin Downing has come up with a plan to send a message to fossil fuel companies who , in his judgment are destroying the earth and possibly killing babies too.
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Methane emissions from fossil fuel exploitation may push Earth past climate tipping point
2014-05-17 03:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: As frackers desperately try to pump every last bit of gas from the ground before the global warming clock runs out, scientists warn that methane emissions could push Earth over a climate tipping point in just a few years. We have to control methane immediately, and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United States, said Robert Howarth, greenhouse gas expert and ecology and environmental biology professor at Cornell University. If we hit a climate-system tipping point...
End fossil fuel burning, save $71 trillion and preserve civilization as we know it
2014-05-14 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: High gas prices got you down? Your problems are a tiny fraction of those faced by our whole fossil fueladdicted global society. A new report from the International Energy Agency considers the cost of remaining hooked on antiquated, polluting, and climate-changing energy sources. First, here`s what might seem to be bad news from the new report: It would cost the world $44 trillion to end our fossil fuel addiction by 2050 and switch to clean energy. Worse, this figure is $8 trillion higher than...
05.14.14 -- Biogenic Carbon Emissions Are Not Equivalent To Fossil Fuel Emissions, BIO Tells EPA
2014-05-13 10:10:56| pollutiononline News Articles
05/14/14Pollution Online Newsletter
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