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New York investigating Exxon over climate change statements
2015-11-08 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NYSE Post: Beginning in September, InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have published a series of articles finding that Exxon has a long history of climate research, which contradicts its stance on climate policy (ClimateWire, October 28). The investigation will focus on whether the company's statements regarding climate change were consistent with its 40-year scientific research. New York's Martin Act passed in 1921 gives the attorney general extraordinary powers and discretion to investigate financial...
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'A one-off in human history': Stern's warning climate change battle
2015-11-08 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Europe has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month. Europeans need to end subsidies for fossil fuels, multiply energy efficiency efforts, improve mass public transport systems and accelerate the roll-out of electric cars in order to live up to their commitments, Stern told the Guardian in an interview. Decisions taken at the Paris summit, opening...
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Climate Change And Economic Woes: The New Civil War
2015-11-08 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: While politicians and pundits would have voters believe it`s all about red states and blue states, the reality is much more complicated, with the growing economic divide and climate change threatening to bring about greater instability, insurrection, and warfare than any time since the American Civil War. According to a recent article by Joel Kotkin in The Daily Beast, the real division in the U.S. today is economic, and the competition is growing increasingly fierce. "When we speak about the...
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Putin join more than 100 leaders at Paris climate talks
2015-11-08 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than 100 world leaders will attend the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Paris, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, France's foreign minister said Sunday during a three-day ministerial meeting in the capital to prepare the negotiations. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Putin has accepted an invitation to attend the conference in Paris. He will be among the speakers on the conference's first day, along with President Barack Obama and the leaders of India and China. The...
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What can trees tell us about climate change?
2015-11-08 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Trees dont just provide the paper for history books. They actually write the historical records themselves. Tree-rings, new layers of wood added to a growing tree each year, record climatic data annually throughout a trees life. Ancient trees provide a record of drought, rainfall, and other climatic variations. And that record could help scientists better understand current and future climate trends. Dendrochronologist Edward R. Cook and his team at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of...
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