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New York theological college first to divest from fossil fuels
2014-06-11 11:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Union Theological Seminary in New York has become the first institution of its kind to divest its $108.4m (64.57m) endowment from fossil fuels, which it says are a sin for Christians. Writing in Time magazine, president Serene Jones explained some of the reasons that led to the decision to pull out of polluters -- a move that its board of trustees voted for unanimously. As a seminary we are familiar with the scriptural warning that the wages of sin is death, and this could not be more...
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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...
Study Finds Buried Fossil Soils Large Contributors to Global Warming
2014-05-27 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has revealed that buried fossils in 15,000 year-old soil could contain high carbon content. Moreover, when disturbed through "erosion, agriculture, deforestation, mining and other human activities," they will become large contributors to further exacerbate global warming and climate change. The work suggests that fossil organic carbon in buried soils is widespread and, as humans increasingly disturb landscapes through a variety of activities, a potential...
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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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Buried Fossil Soils From Long Before Industrialization Are Deep In Carbon
2014-05-26 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: Soil from thousands of years ago that is now deeply buried has been found to be rich in carbon, adding a new dimension to figuring out the planet's carbon cycle. The element carbon comes in many forms and cycles through the environment land, sea and atmosphere just as water in various forms cycles through the ground, oceans and the air. Scientists have long known about the carbon storage capacity of soils, the potential for carbon sequestration, and that carbon in soil can be released to the...
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