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Leonardo DiCaprio Narrates Climate Change Films Urging Shift From Fossil Fuels to Renewables
2014-08-21 22:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Production company Tree Media, whose mission is to inspire positive social action, has just released the first of four films in the Green World Rising series focusing on solutions to the climate crisis. The eight-minute film, CARBON, narrated by actor and dedicated environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, was created with support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and in collaboration with Thom Hartmann. The films goal is to draw attention to how some governments are already putting a price on...
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Bankrolling Energy Exports Creates Rift Between Fossil Fuels And Green Power
2014-08-03 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: With boundaries generally falling, U.S. firms are trying to sell their wares around the globe. But just how that expansion is financed is up for question -- with a movement now afoot that seeks to extract the U.S. government from the equation. At issue is whether the Export-Import Bank, developed in 1934, should supplant private lending sources and make loans to exporters. As such, funding to keep the bank afloat is set to cease on September 30, 2014. Congress could act to keep the bank alive...
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Fossil fuels have unfair advantage over renewables on US capital markets
2014-07-30 17:16:00| Transmission & Distribution World
In 2012, MLPs raised over $23 billion of new capital, most of which is thought to be for oil and shale gas projects... read more
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Scientists Confirm Burning Fossil Fuels Worsens Australian Drought
2014-07-17 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: American scientists have just confirmed that parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions, which means that the long-term decline in rainfall over south and south-west Australia is a consequence of fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity. Such a finding is significant for two reasons. One remains contentious: it is one thing to make generalized predictions about the consequences overall of greenhouse gas levels, but it is quite another...
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Fossil fuels the 'new sub-prime crisis'
2014-07-14 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Staggering gains in solar power - and soon battery storage as well - threatens to undercut the oil industry with lightning speed ... Writing in the conservative UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph, influential columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that the "fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle". Oil and gas investment has soared and production has peaked but has yielded very little financial return: "The cumulative blitz on exploration and production over the past six years...
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