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Arctic drilling inevitable: if we don't find oil, then Russia will

2014-09-07 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Forget the North Sea and the Middle East, it is the frozen oceans of the Arctic which are the next great frontier that big oil companies plan to exploit over the coming 15 years. The Arctic region, which crosses several national boundaries including Russia, Alaska, Norway and Greenland, is thought by energy consultants Wood Mackenzie to hold an estimated 166bn barrels of oil equivalent in terms of reserves. That's more petroleum and gas than Iran holds and enough to meet two-thirds of the world's...

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Climate Change Impacts Already Inevitable, May Soon Be Irreversible

2014-08-26 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Newsweek: The effects of climate change will be severe, pervasive and irreversible within the next few decades if countries burn more than just one-quarter of the fossil fuel reserves already found, according to a major new U.N. draft report. Already, failure to heed earlier scientific advice regarding fossil fuel emissions have made large-scale climatic shifts inevitable, but a significant reduction of emissions now could still slow these changes, and buy the human race some time to adapt to an altered...

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Failure inevitable for pro-coal rally

2014-08-02 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Westmoreland Times: Shawn Garvin of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened Thursdays hearings in Pittsburgh about the agencys proposals to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants by stating, "Science tells us that climate change is real and that human activity is fueling that change." Garvin must be relieved that speakers at the pro-coal rally outside the hearings dared not question this, the EPAs central argument for their new rules. Instead, protest leaders only brought up...

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Washington doesn't care about your cable bill: Why the Comcast merger is inevitable

2014-05-30 02:54:00| Telecom - Topix.net

By all accounts, the federal government should block such a deal. To understand why it won't, just follow the money There are plenty of reasons to worry about the proposal to combine Comcast, America's largest cable and broadband company, with Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable firm and third-largest broadband provider.

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