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McKibben to Clinton: Now really time to get serious about climate change
2015-06-12 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Dear Secretary Clinton - In your husbands years in office, the greenhouse effect was still fairly novel science; even eight years ago, when you were first running for president, climate change was not yet really a top-tier issue. In a sense, then, this summer marks the first chance most Americans have to really find out what and how you think about global warming - the challenge that more than any other will color the economic and foreign policy landscape for the years ahead. In hopes you might...
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Canada: Climate change fight will hamper oil sands returns: Statoil exec
2015-06-12 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Financial returns in the oil sands stand to weaken under the most sweeping efforts to fight global climate change, a top oil producer said Thursday, as some of the industrys leading companies call for increased carbon fees. Statoil ASAs chief economist said that high-cost projects in oil sands and ultra deepwater deposits would struggle to adapt should the industrialized world move aggressively to limit global warming by no more than 2 C above preindustrial levels. Eirik Waerness said such an...
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Climate change mitigation: how should the oil industry join the debate?
2015-06-12 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Climate change mitigation discussions will reach a peak at the UN climate change conference in Paris this November, with the resulting policy set to shape global energy policy for years to come. As the provider of around 80% of the worlds energy, fo
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Climate Change Has Left the US Exposed in the Arctic, Say Military Experts
2015-06-11 22:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Political gridlock over climate change has left the US military exposed to Russia's superior fleets in the Arctic, flooding in its naval bases and a more unstable world, according to high-ranking former military commanders and security advisors. The comments, published on the Weather Channel on Wednesday, echoed president Barack Obama, who recently lambasted climate skeptic politicians for jeopardizing global and national security. Sherri Goodman, who served as Bill Clinton's deputy undersecretary...
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Scientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change Incompatible
2015-06-11 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: More than 100 scientists from the U.S. and Canada called for a moratorium on the development of tar sands Wednesday, saying the carbon-intensive form of energy was "incompatible" with limiting climate change. The scientists published a consensus statement laying out 10 reasons why mining of tar sands - an energy source that`s found largely in Alberta, Canada`s Athabasca region and whose mining has led to significant deforestation and forest degradation in the province - needs to be halted. Those...
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