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Poll: two-thirds of Britons favour wind power over fracking
2014-04-14 09:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new survey has revealed that almost two-thirds of Britons would choose to live near a wind farm over a fracking site. The findings have led to the government being accused of ignoring public opinion. The YouGov poll, commissioned by renewable energy firm Ecotricity, found that 62% of participants if forced to choose would prefer to have a wind farm in their local council area. In comparison, 19% said they would prefer to live near to a fracking site. The findings are broadly similar to...
Two-thirds of Republicans think the media exaggerates climate change
2014-03-18 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Major media outlets in the U.S. are doing a piss-poor job of covering climate change. But even when they do cover it, many of their audience members don`t believe them. On Monday, Gallup released recent survey data showing that 42 percent of Americans polled believe news outlets exaggerate the seriousness of climate change. As you might expect, there`s a big partisan divide on the question. More than two-thirds of Republicans think the media exaggerates, while nearly half of Democrats believe...
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Value of world CO2 markets to rise two-thirds in 2014
2014-02-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's carbon markets are estimated to rise in value by two-thirds this year to 64 billion euros ($87.5 billion), posting the first growth seen since 2011, analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon said on Wednesday. The rise will be mainly fuelled by a jump in European carbon prices triggered by market intervention efforts, the analysts said, adding that traded volumes in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) are expected to climb to 8.3 billion tonnes this year from 8 billion...
New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
2013-11-21 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These carbon majors include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former Soviet Union, China and other countries. Emissions from burning these fuels total nearly two-thirds of all the carbon that has been...
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90 Companies Responsible for Two-Thirds of Global Warming Emissions
2013-11-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests. The companies range from investor-owned firms household names such as Chevron, Exxon and BP to state-owned and government-run firms. The analysis, which was welcomed by the former vice-president Al Gore as a "crucial step forward" found that the vast majority...
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