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Climate change and Exxon Mobile's greed: Letters
2015-10-24 03:07:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
Climate change: The Guardian recently published a scorching piece by Bill McKibben raging against Exxon Mobil, which McKibben claims "knowingly ... helped organize the most consequential lie in human history," following the revelation by their own scientists that fossil fuels would create disastrous changes in climate. McKibben says Exxon Mobile organized and funded a campaign of disinformation and doubt: " t seems crucial simply to say, for the record, the truth: This company had the singular capacity to change the course of world history for the better and instead it changed that course for the infinitely worse.
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How Deep Sea Bacteria Could Help Solve Climate Change
2015-10-24 02:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Scientists may have a new weapon against CO2 buildup and the struggle against climate change -- deep sea bacteria. One rare bacterium can change industrial CO2 into chalk with the help of human scientists. It may not be a silver bullet, but perhaps it could be one more tool to keep future temperatures down. It`s called Thiomicrospira crunogena, or T-Cru for short, and it produces an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase. That substance reacts with water to convert CO2 into bicarbonate -- which can...
How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research
2015-10-23 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Throughout much of the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. It sponsored workshops, funded academic research and conducted its own high-tech experiments exploring the science behind global warming. But by 1990, the company, in public, took a different posture. While still funding select research, it poured millions into a campaign that questioned climate change. Over the next 15 years, it took out prominent ads in the Washington Post, the Wall Street...
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Georgia sues to block enforcement of Obama's climate change rules
2015-10-23 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to halt President Barack Obama`s climate change regulations, joining about two dozen states trying to block the White House`s cornerstone environmental policy. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said the new regulations, announced in August but just formalized Friday, were a "classic example of the Obama Administrations pattern of attempting to accomplish with regulation what it cannot achieve with legislation. The Clean Power Plan is the White House`s...
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These Bipartisan Security Experts Say Climate Change Is A National Security Threat
2015-10-23 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: This week, a full-page advertisement titled "Republicans and Democrats Agree: U.S. Security Demands Global Climate Action" ran in the Wall Street Journal. The statement was undersigned by 48 national security and foreign policy leaders, as well as diplomats and former members of Congress from both parties. It urged U.S. government officials and businesses to focus on this growing problem and tackle it before it`s too late. "This issue is critically important to the world`s most experienced security...
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