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14 Extreme Weather Events Linked to Climate Change
2015-11-07 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Even though skeptics would disagree, weather and climate are clearly two different things. We know that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and land use cause global temperatures to rise over long stretches of time, but what effect does that have on the weather today? Well, according to a new study, we can now pin at least 14 extreme weather events in 2014including heatwaves, drought, wildfires and floodson climate change. The report, Explaining Extreme...
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Keystone XL pipeline rejection signals US taking lead climate change fight
2015-11-07 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The symbolism was everything. Standing before a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, the conservationist president who 104 years ago busted the Standard Oil monopoly, Barack Obama made his own tilt at an environmental legacy. The proposed 1,179-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which Obama rejected on Friday, would have borne more than 800,000 barrels of exceptionally high-carbon oil from Canadas tar sands fields in Alberta to refineries on the US gulf coast each day. It should have been a shoo-in for presidential...
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Citing Climate Change Obama Rejects Construction Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
2015-11-07 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies. Mr. Obamas denial of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, comes as he seeks to build an ambitious legacy on climate change. America is now a global leader...
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Obama: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Undercut U.S. Leadership On Climate Change
2015-11-06 22:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: President Obama announced Friday that he rejected a permit to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The controversial project would have carried oil harvested from tar sands in Canada.
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US rejects Keystone XL pipeline, citing combatting climate change as critical factor; Kerry: arguments pro and con overstated
2015-11-06 20:55:32| Green Car Congress
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