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NY State Investigates ExxonMobil Climate Change Research
2015-11-08 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: New York's attorney general is investigating allegations that Texas-based ExxonMobil Corporation, the world's largest energy company, suppressed evidence of its own researchers linking fossil fuel emissions to climate change. Investigators may also look into the company's support for political lobbying and public information campaigns that called climate change research into question. Tracy Hester, a legal expert at the University of Houston, said the investigation centers on what the company...
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NGO calls for strategies to tackle climate change
2015-11-07 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IPP: There is need to lay down strategies and actions to tackle climate change and advance gender equality and human rights in the upcoming COP21 Climate Change Conference expected to kick off on November 30 and enf on December 11, this year, in Paris, Care International-Tanzania has urged. The organization believes that tackling climate change and reducing gender inequality are central in building a fair and sustainable world where all enjoy human rights. In a statement availed to the media, Care International...
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Climate awareness and the economy influenced Obama's rejection of Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When a Canadian company first proposed building the Keystone XL oil pipeline in 2008, Barack Obama was a presidential candidate running to end wars, climate change was a fringe issue to many people and the nation was entering a devastating recession that would send the unemployment rate soaring to 10%. But the politics of climate and oil shifted dramatically in the intervening years, and President Obama's announcement Friday that the controversial pipeline through the U.S. heartland "would not...
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Oil companies and climate change: who should pay?
2015-11-07 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Environmentalists say a groundbreaking investigation in New York involving energy giant ExxonMobil could have implications for Canadian oil producers. The state's attorney general is looking into allegations the company lied to the public and investors about the risks of climate change. "This is the thin edge of the wedge," says Keith Stewart, climate and energy campaign coordinator for Greenpeace. "Similar to tobacco -- it took time for these court cases to kick in, but once they did, the...
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New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
2015-11-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, using tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, and parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 years. Together with two previous drought...
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