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ExxonMobil Gave More Than $2.3M to Climate Deniers Despite Pledge
2015-07-16 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: ExxonMobil gave more than $2.3m to members of Congress and a corporate lobbying group that deny climate change and block efforts to fight climate change eight years after pledging to stop its funding of climate denial, the Guardian has learned. Climate denial from Republicans in Congress and lobby groups operating at the state level is seen as a major obstacle to US and global efforts to fight climate change, closing off the possibility of federal and state regulations cutting greenhouse...
Pope Francis blasts global warming deniers leaked draft encyclical
2015-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A draft of a major environmental document by Pope Francis says the bulk of global warming is caused by human activity and calls on people -- especially the worlds rich -- to take steps to mitigate the damage by reducing consumption and reliance on fossil fuels. In words likely to anger some of his conservative critics, the pope backs the science of climate change, saying plenty of scientific studies point out that the last decades of global warming have been mostly caused by the great concentration...
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Pope Francis Blasts Climate Deniers in Leaked Draft of Encyclical
2015-06-16 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the world eagerly awaits Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change this Thursday, some scientists have come out and said that the papal letter could draw a larger impact than the world leaders hammering out emissions negotiations at the UN climate summit in Paris this December. Im not a religious person at all, NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt told USA TODAY, adding that faith-based efforts to shift thinking on climate action are very promising. The Popes encyclical is probably going...
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We Asked Climate Deniers What They Think of the Pope. Heres What They Said
2015-06-12 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Washington`s notorious snowball-thrower was at it again--even on a June day with forecast highs of 92 degrees--as the Senate`s most powerful environmental leader delivered a pep talk to activists who deny the science behind climate change. Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, who now chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee despite famously calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," took a star turn on Thursday at the Heartland Institute, whose...
'Climate Change Deniers Will Be Giant Money Losers'
2015-06-11 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A major new global financial report finds that investors who remain ignorant of or deny climate science will be big money losers compared to those who are climate-savvy. The Mercer Research report, "Investing in a Time of Climate Change," details the prospects - and the pitfalls - of various climate scenarios. For the report, "Mercer collaborated with 16 investment partners, collectively responsible for more than US$1.5 trillion, to produce the report," including Germany`s Ministry for Economic...
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