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Canada: Carbon emissions a factor in Metro Vancouver opposition to coal port
2013-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Climate change was a central theme of a debate that saw Metro Vancouver pass a resolution Friday opposing new coal shipments from the Fraser River estuary. At issue is a proposed new $15-million coal terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks under review by Port Metro Vancouver, which will handle electricity-generating coal from Wyoming destined for Asia. While the only issue Metro Vancouver has jurisdiction over at the proposed terminal is air quality, board directors noted greenhouse gas emissions...
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Hansen now a retired federal scientist barnstorms for carbon tax
2013-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Climate scientist James Hansen -- now retired and free from the constraints of his role at NASA -- last night promoted a carbon tax as the most effective way to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a keynote address before Colorado conservationists. In one of his first U.S. appearances since his April retirement, Hansen spoke at Conservation Colorado's annual Rebel With a Cause Gala, where he was honored with the event's namesake award. "I'm glad, by the way, that you called me a rebel, because in...
5:2 your life the carbon footprint fast
2013-06-15 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I'm saving the planet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday can go to hell in a carbonated handcart. Lights, telly, water, beware: you're history. I've lived the life of an ecological vampire, but not any more. Mike Berners-Lee, author of How Bad Are Bananas? and co-author of The Burning Question, is my father confessor. I ring him on my mobile. "Hello, Simon, could you ring me back on my landline?" Bloody hell. Can't even get that right. Mobiles: relatively...
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Africa: 'Carbon Farming' Makes Waves At Stalled Bonn Talks
2013-06-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany. Meanwhile, civil society organisations claim the controversial issue of "carbon farming" has been pushed back onto the agenda after African nations objected to the use of their lands to absorb carbon emissions. At the Bonn Climate Change Conference this week, Russia insisted on new procedural rules. That blocked all activity in one track of negotiations called...
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AKS Hikes Carbon Steel Prices Again - Analyst Blog
2013-06-15 03:10:25| Steel - Topix.net
In just three weeks time, AK Steel Holding Corporation has decided to hike carbon steel products prices yet again.
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