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An oilman's $7 billion lesson in the economics of climate change
2016-03-12 06:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil, was attending a meeting of the parent company's executive committee in Singapore when word trickled in that an exploration well drilled in Alaska's Chukchi Sea - the crowning step in a multi-year $7 billion quest - was a dry hole. Maybe not bone dry. In a recent interview, Odum wouldn't say. But in the oil business glossary, a dry hole is one that can't pay off commercially, and Shell's hole definitely qualified. The parent company, Royal Dutch Shell, abruptly...
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Racism and the effects of climate change
2016-03-12 06:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Tribune: Black leaders in the fight against global climate change issued a call to action to arrest the impact of climate change on their communities. At a recent conference several speakers said Blacks in cities and towns across the country continue to be adversely affected by legislative and other policies that place power plants, brown fields, toxic waste, coal plants, incinerators and other generators of pollution in their communities. The almost daylong Sustaining the Future symposium held on Feb. 24...
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Witness To Climate Change: Remembering Photographer Gary Braasch
2016-03-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jefferson Public Radio: Portland environmental photographer Gary Braasch described himself as a witness to climate change. He dedicated himself to making images that helped the rest of the world witness it too. Braasch died this week while snorkeling and photographing Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Braasch worked on seven continents, photographing everything from receding glaciers in Greenland to Pacific Islanders forced to leave their homes by rising water. He's known for his book "Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming...
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Marco Rubio keeps digging himself a deeper hole on climate change
2016-03-11 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Less than 12 hours after the Miami Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio found himself grilled for a second time by CNN on climate change. The night before, Rubio responded to a question on climate from Miami Republican Mayor Tomás Regalado, who, as an appropriately concerned Floridian, acknowledges and cares about the science and policy causing his city`s flooding. Well, sure, the climate is changing and one of the reasons why the climate is changing is the climate has always been changing,...
Federal Court to Decide if Kids Can Sue Government for Failing to Act on Climate Change
2016-03-11 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Courtrooms usually arent jovial places, but with 21 youth plaintiffs and two busloads of supporting junior high-school students in tow, the air in the U.S. District Courthouse here on Wednesday felt more field trip than federal court. The occasion for the youthful energy was a hearing on a complaint filed on behalf of the plaintiffs, aged 8 19, by Oregon nonprofit Our Childrens Trust. The kids lawyers assert that their clients and the younger generation as a whole, have been deprived of key...
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