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Carbon fees best solution to climate change
2016-09-06 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel: The Aug. 28 article Politics overshadow solars potential in Maine points out missed opportunities for renewable energy options like solar power in Maine as compared to neighboring states. Its exciting to see states acting on ways to minimize the use of carbon-based fuels, which pollute and contribute to the growing climate change crisis, as evidenced by rising shorelines, increased drought and storm surge. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree climate change is real. While state efforts...
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One Photographer Portrays Climate Change Differently
2016-09-06 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The concept of climate change is abstract for most; but for those living throughout the U.S.`s south as well as in parts of California, it represents a real threat to their day-to-day lives. As a Texan native, photographer Andrew Williams was drawn to the prospect of visualizing climate change. "When I was living in New York City, I kept hearing more and more about the drought in the southwest,' he explains, "and then when I started this project, I fell into an 'environmental depression' very...
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U.S. companies tout climate policies, fund climate skeptics
2016-09-06 08:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. companies that have expressed the most fervent public support for President Barack Obamas environmental agenda are also funding its biggest enemies - the scores of U.S. lawmakers who are climate change skeptics and oppose regulation to combat it, according to a Reuters review of public records. Ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential and congressional elections, the donations from companies including PepsiCo, Dupont, and Google reveal a disconnect between how these companies present themselves...
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Climate change like death, an inevitability we must face
2016-09-06 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: Our attitudes to climate change are becoming like our attitude to death: we know we must face up to it one day, but right now we'd prefer to think about something else. This may explain why the media's coverage of a potentially breakthrough report from the government's Climate Change Authority focused on environmentalists' criticisms of it rather than its actual content. Similarly, why focus on the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, using the G20 meeting...
Named and shamed: the top funds blocking climate action
2016-09-06 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Environmental issues like climate change "have real and quantifiable financial impacts," Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said in a letter to business chiefs in May. Fink praised shareholder activists, saying they often had better strategies for dealing with long-term risk than company boards. Why then did the world`s biggest fund of its kind, with US$4.7 billion of assets under management, side with ExxonMobil at its AGM against a proposal to do just that? "It is real hypocrisy," said Julian Poulter,...
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