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DOE to award $9M to promote consensus on future fossil energy technologies
2014-07-20 17:30:39| Green Car Congress
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Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Worsens Australian Drought
2014-07-17 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Such a finding is significant for two reasons. One remains contentious: it is one thing to make generalized predictions about the consequences overall of greenhouse gas levels, but it is quite another...
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Fossil fuels the 'new sub-prime crisis'
2014-07-14 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Staggering gains in solar power - and soon battery storage as well - threatens to undercut the oil industry with lightning speed ... Writing in the conservative UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph, influential columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that the "fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle". Oil and gas investment has soared and production has peaked but has yielded very little financial return: "The cumulative blitz on exploration and production over the past six years...
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NY Times Gets It Wrong With Attacks on Tom Steyer and Fossil Fuel Divestment
2014-07-11 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Word came recently that both the Philadelphia Quakers and the Unitarian General Assembly have decided to divest from fossil fuels. It followed by a few weeks the news that the Roman Catholic University of Dayton and Union Theological Seminary, the home of many a great thinker, had done likewise. In each case I felt a kind of surge of joy, that these historic institutions were helping transform the political and moral landscape, redefining for our time what`s right and wrong. Destroying the climate,...
Divestment: over 300 churches vote end fossil fuels investment
2014-07-11 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The World Council of Churches (WCC), representing 590 million people in 150 countries, has agreed on divesting from firms blamed for worsening climate change, triggering hope that major religious institutions from across the world will follow suit. The WCC is fellowship of over 300 churches, which has previously taken a stance against nuclear energy as well, preferring clean and safe renewables. The institution is also holding an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in New York in September. The...
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