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Australia new PM brings carbon tax repeal bill, as promised
2013-11-12 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stuck to an election pledge on Wednesday to quickly repeal a carbon tax, introducing legislation as the new parliament met for the first time. Abbott, once a climate-change skeptic, was elected in September partly on the back of a plan to scrap a scheme to price the carbon emissions responsible for global warming. But he faces a tough test to convince opposition politicians, with the Greens and Labor Party vowing to fight the changes. "The election was...
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Max Wilbert: Plows and Carbon: The Timeline of Global Warming
2013-11-11 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deep Green Resistance: In June 1988, climatologist and NASA scientist James Hansen stood before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the United States Senate. The temperature was a sweltering 98 degrees. "The earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements, Hansen said. The global warming now is large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause-and-effect relationship to the greenhouse effect Our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse...
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Study calls for federal carbon price to win broad support for oil pipelines
2013-11-11 23:01:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A study by the Mowat Centre says Ontario must push to ensure the benefits of proposed oil pipelines in the province - not just their costs and risks - are spread throughout Canada.
Study calls for federal carbon price to win broad support for oil pipelines
2013-11-11 21:38:20| Energy - Topix.net
A study by the Mowat Centre says Ontario must push to ensure the benefits of proposed oil pipelines in the province - not just their costs and risks - are spread throughout Canada.
Canada: Is B.C. ducking questions about how LNG would affect carbon emissions targets?
2013-11-11 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Like the underground shale gas that Premier Christy Clark says will pave the way to a debt-free future, British Columbia appears caught between a rock and a hard place in balancing its hunger for a burgeoning liquefied natural gas industry and meeting its ambitious 2007 greenhouse gas pollution-reduction targets. If there is a definitive plan in place, the government isnt laying it out yet: Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman says the Liberals LNG economic plan, which includes a tax...
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