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World 'faces food shortages & mass migration' caused global warming
2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The world is facing a future of food shortages and mass migration as a consequence of widespread water shortages caused by global warming, the outgoing head of the World Meteorological Society has warned. Michel Jarraud, the WMOs Secretary-General, said of all the dangers posed by climate change from increasingly intense storms and a growth in disease to rising sea levels that may submerge cities the greatest threat is from dwindling water supplies. About 1.6 billion people already live...
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Volcanic event caused ice age during Jurassic Period, new research suggests
2015-12-11 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Pioneering new research has shed new light on the causes behind an 'ice-age' that took place on Earth around 170 million years ago. An international team of experts, including researchers from the Camborne School of Mines, have found evidence of a large and abrupt cooling of the Earth's temperature during the Jurassic Period, which lasted millions of years. The scientists found that the cooling coincided with a large-scale volcanic event - called the North …
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VW admits emissions scandal was caused by systematic failures
2015-12-10 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Volkswagen has admitted for the first time that the diesel emissions scandal was the result of systematic failures within the company, rather than just the actions of rogue engineers. Hans Dieter Pötsch, the VW chairman, said there had been a whole chain of errors at the German carmaker rather than a one-off. There was a mindset within the company that tolerated rule-breaking, he said. Speaking at a press conference in Germany, Pötsch said engineers had installed defeat devices in diesel...
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Texas RRC Agrees Earthquakes Not Caused by EnerVest, XTO Injection Wells
2015-11-17 20:48:08| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In a November 3 decision, the Texas Railroad Commission agreed with an administrative law judge that two wastewater injection wells, one operated by EnerVest Operating LLC and the other by Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc., did not cause a series of earthquakes near the towns of Reno and Azle from late 2013 through spring of 2014. The Commissioners' unanimous decision found there was not enough evidence to link the wells to the seismic activity, and determined that the companies should be allowed to maintain their well permits.
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Texas RRC Agrees Earthquakes Not Caused by EnerVest, XTO Injection Wells
2015-11-17 20:43:27| Energy - Topix.net
In a November 3 decision, the Texas Railroad Commission agreed with an administrative law judge that two wastewater injection wells, one operated by EnerVest Operating LLC and the other by Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc., did not cause a series of earthquakes near the towns of Reno and Azle from late 2013 through spring of 2014. The Commissioners' unanimous decision found there was not enough evidence to link the wells to the seismic activity, and determined that the companies should be allowed to maintain their well permits.
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