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Neil deGrasse Tyson urges us to think of climate change's biggest victim: Santa
2015-12-25 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: We have officially reached Peak Christmas Internet. Social media's favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, is currently unleashing another of his patented tweetstorms. But this time, his target isn't the scientific accuracy of the new Star Wars movie or Back to the Future. Instead, it's something a little more serious. Well... sort of. All this talk about Polar Bears suffering with Global Warming -- nobody thinks about Santa, the Arctics most famous resident -- Neil deGrasse Tyson...
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Progress to fight climate change must continue
2015-12-25 06:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: America's children have lots to celebrate this holiday season with climate victories both at home and abroad. The global climate agreement reached in Paris will help reduce the health threats posed by climate change, including extreme temperatures, poor air quality and more frequent deadly extreme weather events. At home, the Environmental Protection Agency is looking out for our children through America's Clean Power Plan, which sets the first federal limits on carbon pollution from power...
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Flashback 2015: India aimed at foreign investments for cleaner climate
2015-12-25 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran Post: Eyeing an investment of USD 200 billion in renewable energy for a cleaner climate, India is up against a mammoth task with just about 5 gigawatts of capacity addition estimated to be taking place in 2015 - as against a target of quadrupling the existing capacity to 175 GW by 2022. On positive side, foreign and domestic investors have already committed to put in USD 20-30 billion to set up renewable energy ventures, while green bonds seem to be catching up with proceedings exceeding Rs 10,000 crore...
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Exxon Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers 1970s, Too
2015-12-24 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known. The group's members included senior scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco,...
Report: All Major Oil Companies Knew of Climate Change by 1970s
2015-12-24 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now!: A new investigation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning outlet InsideClimate News suggests that nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company was aware of the impact of fossil fuels on climate change as early as the late 1970s. Earlier exposés by InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have revealed that Exxon scientists knew about climate change as early as 1977, and for decades Exxon concealed its own findings that the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming, alters the climate...
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