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Exxon Mobil's response to climate change is consummate arrogance
2014-04-05 18:27:53| Chemicals - Topix.net
As scientists laid bare the impacts of climate change, the oil and gas giant said climate policies are highly unlikely to stop it digging up fossil fuels.
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Climate change Is a game of risk
2014-04-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: If climate change is going to matter as a political and economic issue, it needs to be translated into political and economic terms. Out in San Francisco the hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to make climate matter for politics, promising to spend tens of millions of dollars in 2014 on attack ads targeting politicians who oppose action on global warming. And Steyer is also involved in an effort to make climate change matter for the business community, teaming up with former New York City...
Climate change In the balance
2014-04-04 03:39:24| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: IN SCIENCE, more information is supposed to lead to better conclusions and greater consensus. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which published its latest report on March 31st, certainly has more information. The new study synthesises 73,000 published works (a quarter of them in Chinese). This represents a 100-fold increase in about 30 years. But consensus remains elusive. Richard Tol of Sussex University, in Britain, disparagingly appraised the reports conclusions as the four...
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Iceland Prime Minister Says Climate Change Will be Great for Iceland
2014-04-03 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wire: Iceland's prime minister is ready to ride the wave of melted polar ice caps to increased food production and export opportunities for his arctic island. During a recent interview, Minister Sigmundur Daví Gunnlaugsson said that climate change could open up new economic opportunities for the country, according to The Reykjavík Grapevine. "Theres a water shortage, energy is becoming more expensive, land is in short supply and it is predicted that the cost of food will rise in the foreseeable future...
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Climate change will 'lead to battles for food' says head of World Bank
2014-04-03 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Battles over water and food will erupt within the next five to 10 years as a result of climate change, the president of the World Bank said as he urged those campaigning against global warming to learn the lessons of how protesters and scientists joined forces in the battle against HIV. Jim Yong Kim said it was possible to cap the rise in global temperatures at 2C but that so far there had been a failure to replicate the "unbelievable" success of the 15-year-long coalition of activists and scientists...
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