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Exxons climate concealment
2015-10-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: MILLIONS of Americans once wanted to smoke. Then they came to understand how deadly tobacco products were. Tragically, that understanding was long delayed because the tobacco industry worked for decades to hide the truth, promoting a message of scientific uncertainty instead. The same thing has happened with climate change, as Inside Climate News, a nonprofit news organization, has been reporting in a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil dating from the 1970s and interviews...
Has Bernie Sanders lost his edge on climate issues?
2015-10-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: Bernie Sanders should be everything environmentalists want in a presidential candidate. When the senator from Vermont announced his 2016 run, their longtime best friend on Capitol Hill looked like the perfect foil to push Hillary Clinton off the fence on contentious issues like the Keystone XL pipeline and Arctic drilling. Then, if his campaign picked up enough steam, he'd have the opportunity to expand the debate on green priorities beyond those big-ticket controversies. Thats not exactly how...
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Outsourcing manufacturing to China and the climate
2015-10-10 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists from three universities demonstrate that buying a product made in China causes significantly higher carbon dioxide emissions than purchasing the same product made elsewhere. The study, titled "Targeted opportunities to address the climatetrade dilemma in China," is available here. "The amazing increase in Chinese manufacturing over the past 15 years has driven the world economy to new heights and supplied consumers in...
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Why climate change could leave Horn of Africa parched
2015-10-10 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is drying out the Horn of Africa at an alarming rate, say scientists. Paleoclimatologists examined past moisture trends and found that the current drying trend is extreme, according to a paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances. What "our paleoclimate records tell us is that this drying is really unusual in the context of the last 2,000 years," says study lead author Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Arizona. "As greenhouse gases rise,...
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EIB sets new 35% target for climate lending in developing countries
2015-10-10 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The European Investment Bank (EIB), the worlds largest lender for climate related projects, will increase the proportion of its lending in support of climate related investment in developing countries from 25% to 35%. Speaking at a meeting of finance Ministers and multilateral financial institutions at the IMF -- World Bank annual meetings in Lima, Werner Hoyer confirmed that the European Investment Bank will increase climate lending in countries identified by the UNFCCC and the OECD as being...
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