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Alaska Hunts Oil as Arctic Damage Shows Most Change From Climate
2013-10-01 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When Jerry Otto started hunting for Alaskan oil in 1980, his tractor-trailers barreled along ice roads as much as 10 feet thick for 180 days every year. Last winter, when he set out to drill 80 miles south of the Arctic Ocean for Australias Linc Energy Ltd. (LNC), regulators opened the roads for 126 days. The rest of the time, warm weather left the routes too mushy for vehicles, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its November issue. Then in January, in a twist that embodies the perplexing...
Russian court remands last of Greenpeace Arctic oil protesters
2013-09-29 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Russian court has ordered eight remaining Greenpeace activists be held in custody for two months over a protest against Arctic offshore drilling, the environment advocacy group said on Sunday, dashing any hope some might be released quickly. Authorities detained all 30 members of the pressure group who were aboard icebreaker the Arctic Sunrise when they broke up attempts to scale state-run Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya offshore oil platform on September 18. Of those, 22 people, including a freelance...
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Melting Arctic Permafrost Looms as Major Factor in Warming, Climate Change
2013-09-28 00:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wunderground: A heavyweight boxer in the climate change match is missing from the fifth climate assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday. Permafrost, which is frozen ground that doesn't melt during the summer, covers 24 percent of the land in the northern hemisphere. It also stores approximately 1.5 trillion tons of carbon twice the amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere. When the organic matter that makes up permafrost thaws, the carbon it contains...
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Out in the cold: climate change in the Arctic
2013-09-27 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As I watch climate change eat away at the Arctic sea ice, I feel sadness, resignation and even anger at how we could have let this happen how we continue to let this happen. I worked for WWF in the Arctic for more than ten years, out in the field with reindeer herders, with scientists in ships by the ice edge and in meeting rooms with ministers. For all of those people, a constant preoccupation is the state of the Arctic's snow and ice. Ice is the defining characteristic of the high north all...
Shell Oil's Arctic drilling operations in limbo
2013-09-26 14:37:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Six months after federal officials chastised Shell Oil for its faulty offshore drilling operations in the Arctic, the company has yet to explain what safeguards it has put in place or when it plans to resume exploring for oil in the vulnerable region. Shell's 2012 return to offshore Arctic exploration after a generation away was marred by high-profile problems, including hefty fines for polluting the air and a drilling rig that ran aground. The company canceled its 2013 drilling season, and its...
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