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More than 300 scientists warn over Trump's climate change stance
2016-09-21 15:07:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of top scientists warned on Tuesday against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's vow to pull the United States out of the Paris climate-warming accord if elected in November. The 375 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, said in an open letter that a U.S. abandonment of the agreement would make it far harder to develop global strategies to lessen the impact of global warming. "Thus it is of great concern that the Republican nominee...
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SEC investigating Exxon on climate, accounting
2016-09-21 15:07:19| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly investigating oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. over its policies regarding climate change and certain accounting methods. The probe focuses in part on how Exxon, the United States largest oil and natural gas company, factors the impact of climate change and related government policies on its business, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the inquiry. Officials also want to know why Exxon has not written...
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375 top scientists warn of 'real, serious, immediate' climate threat
2016-09-21 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Yesterday, 375 of the worlds top scientists, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter regarding climate change. In the letter, the scientists report that the evidence is clear: humans are causing climate change. We are now observing climate change and its affect across the globe. The seas are rising, the oceans are warming, the lower atmosphere is warming, the land is warming, ice is melting, rainfall patterns are changing and the ocean is becoming more acidic. These facts are...
A vote for Trump is a vote for climate catastrophe
2016-09-20 15:05:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: July and August were the hottest months for the planet since record keeping began. Scientists are confident that 2016 will be the hottest year. Rising sea levels have made flooding commonplace in several major U.S. cities. And meanwhile, one of our leading presidential candidates says climate change is some kind of Chinese hoax. Elections have consequences, and this is one of the most fateful: Anyone who takes climate change seriously had better do everything possible to keep Donald Trump out...
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Canada needs an ambitious national climate plan
2016-09-20 15:05:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: On the international stage, the Trudeau government has displayed admirable leadership on climate change. Still in its first year, it played a key role in negotiation of the landmark Paris Agreement and helped to broker a historic North American climate treaty. Unlike its predecessor, it seems to take seriously the existential threat posed by climate change, the heat waves, droughts and floods, melting ice caps and freakish weather that promise to wreak perilous havoc if the Earths warming is allowed...
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