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Merkels taste for coal upset $130 billion green drive
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When Germany kicked off its journey toward a system harnessing energy from wind and sun back in 2000, the goal was to protect the environment and build out climate-friendly power generation. More than a decade later, Europes biggest economy is on course to miss its 2020 climate targets and greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants are virtually unchanged. Germany used coal, the dirtiest fuel, to generate 45 percent of its power last year, its highest level since 2007, as Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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Coal fades, so electrics get cleaner
2014-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Almost as soon as modern mass-market electric vehicles became available, skeptics began asking if they actually delivered an environmental benefit. After all, they argued, charging batteries from a generating plant that burns fossil fuels simply relocates the greenhouse gas emissions to someone elses neighborhood. There was some basis for this position: An April 2012 report titled State of Charge: Electric Vehicles Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States, by...
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High costs and a greener China expected to dampen thermal coal industry
2014-09-20 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: New research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has identified major financial risks for future investments in the international coal industry, supposedly caused by a domino effect initiated by slowing demand in China. The research, published earlier this week has determined that the industry as a whole could potentially peak as early as 2016, with an expected industry decline as demand for the fossil fuel decreases. The analysis has evaluated $112 billion (68bn) worth of future coal mine...
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Canary coal mine: Extreme weather, rising seas plague atoll nation
2014-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: As global leaders gear up to meet at next weeks United Nations Climate Summit in New York, the president of a small Pacific island nation vulnerable to rising seas caused by global warming said the future of his people depends on creating a carbon-free world by 2050. Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, climate change has arrived, Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak said in a video address to his fellow heads of state. Our atoll nation stands at the front line in the battle...
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Leaders say coal rhetoric not helping
2014-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: West Virginia's top legislative leaders aren't sure clamoring over coal this election season does much good for Appalachia's already-sputtering industry. In the Mountain State, federal campaigns have hammered on the fear of federal regulation further stifling coal. Hopefuls for an open Senate seat and two competitive House races have recited the same conversation: Republicans lump Democrats in with President Obama, an ever-unpopular figure in West Virginia. Democrats zigzag to show they don't support...
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