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Exxon knew about climate change decades ago, spent $30M to discredit it
The results of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, published Wednesday, show that Exxon scientist warned company executives decades ago about human-caused global warming. But despite its own 40-year-old research that showed that burning fossil fuels released carbon dioxide that was warming the planet to harmful levels, Exxon – the United States' largest oil company – has spent $30 million to discredit climate science to protect its carbon-based business.
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Set In Stone But Ever-Changing: Sculptures Reshaped By The Tides
It's tough to see Jason deCaires Taylor's sculptures firsthand — unless you have scuba gear. Most of them rest under the sea. His latest work is fully visible only when the tide of the Thames recedes.
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FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT PLEDGES SURPASS $2.6 TRILLION
Global Coalition Announces Major Commitments as World Leaders Gather at UN; Thousands of new commitments represent a 50-fold increase in one year NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2015 — The movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy and climate solutions has exploded,...
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What Climate Change Looks Like From the Arctic's Edge
For decades, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre has been on the front lines of climate-related science and public education in Canada’s north.
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Melting Ice Threatens To Submerge Entire Villages
“As it stands now, my current home may not exist 10 years from now,” declares Millie Hawley, president of the tribal council of the small Alaskan town of Kivalina. The Washington Post reports that Hawley used these blunt words before introducing President Barack Obama on Sept. 2 at a speech during his visit to Kotzebue, located approximately 75 miles southeast of Kivalina.
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What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic
Back in the 1990's, Exxon was publicly taking the position that the scientific research on global warming was contradictory and too sketchy to act upon. But, at the same time, its own researchers were quietly incorporating some of those scientific conclusions into the company's operational forecasts.
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Surging Seas: Map shows New Orleans submerged by 2100
According to Climate Central researchers, New Orleans and much of southeast Louisiana could be consumed by water after 2100.
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New insights into the dynamics of past climate change
A new study finds that changing climate in the polar regions can affect conditions in the rest of the world far quicker than previously thought. A new study of the relationship between ocean currents and climate change has found that they are tightly linked, and that changes in the polar regions can affect the ocean and climate on the opposite side of the world within one to two hundred years, far quicker than previously thought.
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‘Intolerable’ Heat May Hit the Middle East by the End of the Century
By the end of this century, areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, according to a new study published Monday. Because of humanity’s contribution to climate change, the authors wrote, some population centers in the Middle East “are likely to experience temperature levels that are intolerable to humans.”
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Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus
Infographic comparing both sides views.
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Lockdown: the End of Growth in the Tar Sands
Just a few days ago, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever measured as it made landfall on the western coast of Mexico. It hit as we approach the end of another year that is expected to break last year’s record as the hottest year of recorded temperatures.
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Bill Gates says that only socialism can save us from climate change
The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels.
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What Every Climate-Concerned Billionaire Should Do
The idea is simple. People burn fossil fuels. The fuels emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If that carbon lingers in the air, it causes greenhousing and contributes to global warming; if it gets absorbed by the ocean, it acidifies the water and wrecks the marine food chain. So the key is to put less carbon into the atmosphere. Most policies, accordingly, focus on preventing people from burning fuels. But what if the fossil fuels were never...
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NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
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Melting ice in west Antarctica could raise seas by three metres, warns study
Nasa research finds ice in the region has gone into ‘irreversible retreat’ and claims effect is ‘unstoppable’
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Bill McKibben on Why Exxon Is the Next Big Climate Fight
"They helped waste what may turn out to be the most critical quarter century in human history," McKibben says of Exxon's alleged climate lies
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Justin Trudeau Needs To Stand Up To The Oil Industry
Last Friday, Barack Obama did something no other politician ever has -- rejected a major fossil fuel project because of its impact on the climate. At the exact moment that the President was making the announcement, nearly 80 people were risking arrest as part of Climate Welcome, a four day sit-in outside of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's residence calling for a freeze on tar sand expansion and a commitment to justice based clean energy economy.
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Fresh Climate Data Confirms 2015 Is Unlike Any Other Year in Human History
Over the past few days, a bevy of climate data has come together to tell a familiar yet shocking story: Humans have profoundly altered the planet’s life-support system, with 2015 increasingly likely to be an exclamation point on recent trends. On Monday, scientists at Britain’s national weather service, the Met Office, said our planet will finish this year more than one degree Celsius warmer than preindustrial levels for the first time.
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City Becomes The First In The World To Implement Climate Change Warning Stickers At Gas Stations
Drivers in one Canadian city will soon be getting a dose of climate reality when they go to the gas station. The city of North Vancouver, British Columbia passed a law this week that mandates climate change warning stickers be applied to gas pumps in the city. The vote makes the city the first in the world to implement such a law. The City Council still has to approve designs for the stickers, but a city staff report recommended including messages such as...
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Top Science Committee Dem expresses disgust and dismay at the committee chair's behavior
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson writes letters.
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