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Game of Thrones is secretly all about climate change
2015-06-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Did you know that Game of Thrones is secretly about the world's terrible failure to stop climate change? Well, it is, and this video explains why: The show's much more entertaining stand-in for climate change is the White Walkers, the north-of-the-Wall monsters that command a gigantic zombie army. The White Walkers are a threat to all humanity: their zombie minions are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations and noble houses. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human...
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How harm climate change could explode exponentially down the road
2015-06-04 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Week Magazine: About two years ago there was a a political flap about something called "climate sensitivity." Roughly speaking, this is how much global temperature will increase given a certain quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. A low sensitivity means it takes relatively more emissions to increase temperatures, a high sensitivity means the opposite. Back then, there was a lot of talk about the global warming "pause," since the rise in atmospheric temperatures seemed to have slowed, suggesting that sensitivity...
Shell CEO: Industry must tackle climate change
2015-06-04 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MarketWatch: Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSA) chief executive on Thursday urged the oil industry and governments to work more closely to tackle the "massive challenge" presented by climate change and growing energy demand. "I believe 20 years from now if we don't act global public opinion will be unforgiving," Ben van Beurden told an OPEC seminar in Vienna. The Anglo-Dutch oil major's head said that the world is undergoing a profound energy transition as demand continues to grow and climate change concerns mount....
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Calif lawmakers advance aggressive climate change plans
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: California lawmakers on Wednesday pushed through an ambitious climate change package to further reduce the states carbon footprint and boost the use of renewable energy to 50 percent in 15 years. The state Senate passed proposals to enact Gov. Jerry Browns call to curb greenhouse gas emissions by setting what the administration calls the most aggressive benchmark in North America over the objection of Republicans who characterized such regulation as coastal elitism that would kill working-class...
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State Senate OKs climate change bill, seeks ban new offshore drilling
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: State senators passed legislation Wednesday intended to help California tackle climate change by setting new targets for generating renewable energy, reducing gasoline use and increasing energy efficiency in buildings. The lawmakers also approved a measure that would ban new offshore oil drilling from an area in the Santa Barbara Channel known as Tranquillon Ridge, two weeks after an oil spill at nearby Refugio State Beach. The climate change bill, which now goes to the Assembly with other...
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