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At Least One GOP Presidential Candidate Believes Climate Change
2015-10-13 16:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: At a conference in New Hampshire yesterday hosted by the bipartisan group No Labels, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) opened by asking the audience, "How many of you believe climate change is real?" After a pretty solid round of applause from those in attendance, he said, "I do too." Graham is one of the only GOP presidential candidates who admits climate change is real and believes the U.S. needs to take strong action to address it. Several of the top GOP presidential candidates, including Ted Cruz,...
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Bolivia: Capitalism must be 'destroyed' to solve climate change
2015-10-13 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Bolivia has called for an end to capitalism in order to tackle climate change, warning the economic system is leading humanity towards "a horizon of destruction that sentences nature and life itself to death". The socialist country yesterday submitted its national climate action plan to the United Nations, which all nations have been asked to prepare ahead of global talks in Paris that begin next month. Bolivia steered away from setting an economy-wide carbon reduction goal and instead pledged...
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Climate Concern Makes Some Oil Unburnable, Says BP Chief Economist
2015-10-13 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Some of the worlds oil will not be burned as a result of climate concerns, BPs chief economist said on Tuesday. Scientists have calculated around a third of proven oil reserves need to stay in the ground to hold global warming to 2C, the international goal. Spencer Dales remarks, in a speech to the Society of Business Economists in London, represented a rare acceptance of that analysis from the industry. "The oil market has changed very significantly over the past 10 or 15 years. Concerns...
How to Manage Fire to Cut Pollution and Slow Climate Change
2015-10-13 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Heres a Your Dot contribution on the many benefits of managing fires in forests, savannah and peatlands including slowing global warming, protecting threatened ecosystems and reducing noxious palls of haze. It comes from Lindon N. Pronto, a young former federal wildland firefighter from California who is completing a master of science degree in environmental governance at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Pronto also works at the Global Fire Monitoring Center at the Max Planck Institute...
After the VW scandal, how can we trust business act on climate change?
2015-10-13 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It wont show up in any biodiversity assessment, or make it into a State Of The World report. But alongside tuna stocks, tropical rainforests, and the white rhino, there is another finite resource being ruthlessly squandered through unsustainable practices. Trust the invisible but crucial glue that holds communities together and social contracts in place is a precious commodity. And every time a corporation poisons our atmosphere (with this years villainous cameo coming courtesy of the car...
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