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The man who discovered climate change finally gets his due
2016-03-31 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: French glaciologist Claude Lorius, 84, has taken part in more than 20 polar expeditions, mostly to Antarctica, and was one of the first scientists to foresee the ice melt now occurring in the region. He returned to Antarctica for the filming of "Ice and the Sky," which tells his story. Photo courtesy of "Ice and the Sky." The blizzard lashed at the men digging out a giant red bus-tank hybrid out of snowdrifts on the Antarctic Peninsula. The whiteout lasted 10 days, and by the end, 23-year-old...
Antarctic Melt Surges Sea Level in Climate Change Recalculation
2016-03-31 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsmax: Climate scientists at two U.S. universities said the most recent U.N. report issued in 2013 on the effects of global warming had missed the real rate at which the ice covering the continent would melt, reported Reuters. That 2-year-old report said the worst case of man-made climate change would mean a sea-level rise of between 52 and 98 cm by 2100. The new study suggests the real rise could be 1.5 meters (5 ft), posing an even greater threat to cities from New York to Shanghai. "This could...
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Can imams drive action on climate change in Pakistan?
2016-03-31 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Imams and other religious leaders are an under-used means of pushing action to combat climate change, experts and religious scholars say. Religious leaders have the moral standing to call on people and businesses to consider the environmental impact of their activities and take a bigger role in reducing their own carbon footprints and finding ways to cope with the growing impacts of climate change, experts said at a multi-faith meeting in Islamabad. Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, central chairman of...
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Probe of Exxon's climate change disclosures expands
2016-03-30 16:47:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The logo of Exxon Mobil Corporation is shown on a monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, December 30, 2015. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference with other U.S. State Attorney's General to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 29, 2016.
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Exxon Mobil climate change inquiry in New York gains allies
2016-03-30 15:08:08| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands announced Tuesday that they would join Eric T. Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, in his investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied in decades past to investors and the public about the threat of climate change. The additional participation was announced during a news conference at Mr. Schneiderman's offices in Lower Manhattan announcing support from 15 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands for the Obama administration's...
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