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How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research
2015-10-23 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Throughout much of the 1980s, Exxon earned a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research. It sponsored workshops, funded academic research and conducted its own high-tech experiments exploring the science behind global warming. But by 1990, the company, in public, took a different posture. While still funding select research, it poured millions into a campaign that questioned climate change. Over the next 15 years, it took out prominent ads in the Washington Post, the Wall Street...
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Hurricane Patricia looms, climate pact edges closer
2015-10-23 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Battle-weary diplomats left Bonn Friday after endorsing the rough outlines of a UN climate rescue pact, as Mexico invoked a super-hurricane nearing its coast as a portent of Earth's future if negotiations failed. After a bruising round of talks, envoys were satisfied that the latest blueprint reflected everyone's core concerns. But they were also anxious over the work to surmount ahead of a looming summit in Paris where the historic deal is supposed to be sealed. Mexico's negotiator, Roberto...
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New Directions Prompted by Climate Rules
2015-10-23 20:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Cap and Trade and Nuclear Proposals Advanced Two dozen states are indicating they will legally challenge Obama administration climate rules, but many others seem prepared to move on. read more
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Mexican plea for climate consensus as hurricane nears
2015-10-23 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Mexico's climate negotiator issued a tearful plea Friday to UN colleagues to put aside their differences for a global pact, as a superhurricane headed for his country. "In about four hours, Hurricane Patricia will hit the Mexican coast," Roberto Dondisch said at the closing session of a fraught round of negotiations in Bonn. "I don't think I need to say more about the urgency to get this deal done." "I ask you all to put aside your differences so together we can start working." Dondisch...
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UN calls for ministers as climate talks head for Paris
2015-10-23 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Enter the politicians. Officials working on plans for a global climate change deal say its time for ministers and world leaders to get stuck into the meat of UN negotiations. After a rotten start, five days of talks between nearly 200 countries in Bonn this week concluded on Friday with the publication of a new draft text for a deal, to be finalised at a Paris summit this December. At 55 pages its heavier than the 22 which made up an October 5 version, but contains everything we need to...
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