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A new space race: satellites could test the world's climate vows
2015-12-11 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists from the United States, Japan, and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop. Monitoring a single country's net emissions from above could not only become an important tool to establish whether it had met its promises to slow global warming, a point of contention at climate talks in Paris, but also help emitters to pinpoint the sources of greenhouse...
[Newsmaker] New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune
2015-12-02 12:34:42| Apparel - Topix.net
Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday he is a dad and pledged to give away his fortune to make the world a "better place" for baby daughter Maxima and others. In a letter to Maxima posted on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan said they were going to give away 99 percent of their company shares - estimated value $45 billion - during their lives in an effort to make a happy and healthy world.
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What happened to California regulators' vows to make steam injections safer?
2015-11-28 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a "chimney" - a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field west of Bakersfield. Taylor, a construction supervisor for Chevron, had been battling a long-standing problem near a dormant well in the Midway-Sunset oil field. His job was to control leaks at Well 20 in a primordial tableau of sinkholes, small bubbling pools of scalding water and geysers that on occasion spewed...
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French government vows to push on with Paris climate summit: If not, terrorism wins
2015-11-15 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The French government vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate summit in Paris this month and will boost security for the more than 120 world leaders traveling to a city reeling from a deadly terrorist attack. It will go ahead with reinforced security measures, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in Vienna on Nov. 14, a day after gunmen killed as many as 129 people in Paris. This is an absolutely necessary step in the battle against climate change and of course it will take...
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TransCanada Corp vows to find a way to get Keystone XL built, remains absolutely committed'
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: TransCanada Corp., the company that has been trying for seven years to build the Keystone XL pipeline, says it is not ready yet to throw in the towel on the massive energy project despite its formal rejection Friday by U.S. President Barack Obama. Today, misplaced symbolism was chosen over merit and science rhetoric won out over reason, TransCanada Corp. president and CEO Russ Girling said in a statement issued shortly after Obamas White House news conference to announce his decision on the...
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