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Some oil companies undeterred as global leaders sign on to Paris climate deal
2016-04-18 00:46:39| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world's biggest oil companies aren't convinced there's any end in sight for fossil fuel use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among signatories from some 147 countries convening Friday at the United Nations headquarters on Earth Day, the first opportunity to formally sign the global climate agreement completed in December.
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Scientists Start to Look at Ground Beneath Their Feet for Solution to Climate Change
2016-04-17 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate scientists anxious to find ways to limit atmospheric greenhouse gases have started to look at the ground beneath their feet. They calculate that although the worlds soils already hold 2.4 trillion tonnes of gases in the form of organic carbon, theres room for more. Scientists from the U.S. and Scotland report in Nature journal that with a few changes to agricultural practice, there would be room for another 8 billion tonnes. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change in the...
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50 Years Ago Big Oil Bragged About Being Able To Melt Glaciers, While They Knew About Climate Change
2016-04-15 22:04:12| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Newly-released oil industry documents push back the start date of the world's most successful disinformation campaign to the 1960s, if not earlier. The must-read documents, published by The Center for International Environmental Law , strengthen the hand of the numerous attorneys general investigating whether ExxonMobil engaged in a cover-up to mislead the public and investors about the dangers of human-caused climate change.
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NASA Facebook page manager has had enough with climate deniers
2016-04-15 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: We invite you to comment on our page, but we ask that you be courteous and cite credible sources when sharing information. Thats the disclaimer posted atop NASAs Global Climate Change Facebook page. And judging from the normally staid government agencys response to a handful of climate change deniers who ran amok this week under a post by media personality Bill Nye, they mean it. Nye, known as the Science Guy, shared a story on NASAs page Monday about a climate change denier who refused...
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Consensus affirmed: Virtually all climate scientists agree warming is manmade
2016-04-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Ninety to 100 percent of climate scientists agree that the planet is warming due to human activity, according to a peer-reviewed paper published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study, called a "consensus on consensus," synthesizes findings from prior published research. While there is a near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists that human activity is causing the planet to warm, public opinion in the U.S. lags far behind. Only 70 percent of Americans (79 percent...
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