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Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
2015-11-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released today. The report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, addresses the natural and...
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Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Keep Heat On
2015-11-10 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The key passage -- the forward-looking passage -- of President Obamas speech last week rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline came right at the end, after he rehashed all the arguments about jobs and gas prices that had been litigated endlessly over the last few years. Ultimately, he said, if were going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, were going to have keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and...
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Popes call for action on climate change has shifted US views
2015-11-10 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: When the leader of the world`s 1.2 billion Catholics issued his call to action on climate change in June, observers wondered whether this would move the needle in the public debate. A survey of people in the US released late last week suggests that it has. Some 17 per cent of overall respondents and 35 per cent of Catholic respondents said they were influenced by Francis`s message that climate change is a crucial moral issue. The percentage of Catholics who said they were "very worried" about...
One of the Worlds Largest Coal Companies Misled Investors About Climate Change Risk
2015-11-10 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Just days after President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists were handed another victory Monday morning when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released the results of an investigation that found one of the world's largest coal companies had misled the public and its shareholders about the risks climate change could pose to its bottom line. After several years of investigations, Schneiderman reached an agreement with Peabody Energy that won't require...
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Peabody Energy, worlds largest coal company, to disclose more climate risks to investors
2015-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Peabody Energy, the worlds biggest publicly traded coal company, agreed Sunday to disclose more fully potential risks to its business from climate change regulations and resulting impacts on coal demand as part of a settlement with New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. The agreement follows recent news that Schneiderman is also investigating ExxonMobil for allegedly misleading the public and investors about climate change. Taken together, the revelations suggest that we could be entering...
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