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Tar balls from wildfires worsening global warming
2013-07-10 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: We`ve discussed at length how global warming can make wildfires worse. But here`s some more bad news: New research suggests that the fires themselves could be worsening global warming. Forest fires release carbon from burned trees and leaves into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is released as carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. But a lot of it is spewed into the air as soot and clumps of black carbon known as tar balls. Soot doesn`t necessarily warm the globe - some if it can actually...
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Enbridges tar sands pipelines
2013-07-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: CURWOOD: In his recent address on climate change, President Obama pledged not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it would add significantly to global warming. Many Keystone opponents heard that as a death-knell for the project, but the overall climate impact of the pipeline will depend on whether the diluted bitumen, dilbit, from the Canadian Tar Sands would be able to get to the market anyway. And there may be another way. According to the online publication InsideClimateNews, the Enbridge Company...
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Bay Area Battles Chevrons Dangerous Tar Sands Refinery
2013-07-03 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 350BayArea.org, joined by local groups and unions, last week announced plans for a massive protest Aug. 3 at California`s Chevron Richmond oil refinery. Smoke from the Chevron refinery explosion spreads across the bay. Photo by Drew Dellinger, a bay area resident. The largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, Chevron, along with the other four Bay Area refineries, is already refining tar sands oil from Canada, brought into the area by rail. Chevron is among industry giants pressing for...
Obama Has a Plan for Climate, What If It Involves Tar Sands?
2013-06-26 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: "You see, I've got this plan..." ... On a sweltering day in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama sweated as he laid out his new plan to combat climate change. In addition to the mandatory cuts in CO2 pollution from coal-fired power plants and the efforts to protect the country from the ravages of climate change highlighted by my colleague Mark Fischetti, Obama also found time to mention a little pipeline that would connect the tar sands in Alberta, Canada with refineries along the Gulf Coast...
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Al Gore says Obama must veto 'atrocity' of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
2013-06-15 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity". The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL. "I certainly hope that he will veto that now that the Canadians have publicly concluded that it is not safe to take a pipeline across British Columbia to ports on the Pacific,"...
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