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Join a fossil fuels divestment campaign
2013-10-29 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world has a choice when dealing with climate change. One is to decide it's a problem like any other, which can be dealt with slowly and over time. The other is to recognise it as a crisis, perhaps the unique crisis in human history, which will take rapid, urgent action to overcome. Science is in the second, scared camp that's the meaning of the IPCC report issued last month, which showed that our planet is already undergoing climatic shifts far greater than any experienced in human civilisation,...
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Fossil Fuels Dominate Primary Energy Consumption
2013-10-24 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Worldwatch Institute: Coal, natural gas, and oil accounted for 87 percent of global primary energy consumption in 2012, as the growth of worldwide energy use continued to slow due to the economic downturn, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend. The relative weight of these energy sources keeps shifting, although only slightly. Natural gas increased its share of energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent during 2012, coal rose from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, and oil fell from 33.4 to 33.1 percent. The International...
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Harvard Finds Fossil Fuels Indispensable
2013-10-13 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motley Fool: At $32.7 billion, Harvard's endowment is among the largest in the country. The strong returns of the assets owned within the endowment are the main reason it has grown so large. In fact, over the past two decades Harvard's endowment has returned 12% per year, with a portion of those gains fueled by the fossil fuel-related investments it has held. Some, however, have suggested that those fossil fuel investments ought not be held, as the emissions these create are what's driving climate change that...
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Wendell Berry on Fossil Fuels, Sustainable Agriculture and Runaway Capitalism
2013-10-08 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Moyers & Company: This week on Moyers & Company in a rare television interview, Moyers talks to visionary author and farmer Wendell Berry to discuss a sensible, but no-compromise plan to save the Earth. We also examine the critical role of honey bees in our food supply and the threats they face in The Dance of the Honey Bee. And after the antics in Washington this week, Moyers shares his views on the government shutdown. Wendell Berry, one of Americas most influential writers who has written more than 40 novels,...
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Fossil fuels need to stay unburned to meet climate target
2013-09-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Most known reserves of fossil fuels will need to stay unburned to stop temperatures rising beyond a United Nations target that seeks to curb climate-change dangers. About 531 billion metric tons of carbon have been emitted by burning oil, coal and gas, cutting down forests and making cement since 1750, the UN said today. Capping greenhouse gas output at 840 billion tons gives a 50 percent chance of meeting the UN target of restraining warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), it...
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