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Study: Keystone carbon pollution more than figured
2014-08-10 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The much-debated Keystone XL pipeline could produce four times more global warming pollution than the State Department calculated earlier this year, a new study concludes. The U.S. estimates didn't take into account that the added oil from the pipeline would drop prices by about $3 a barrel, spurring consumption that would create more pollution, the researchers said. Outside experts not connected to the study gave it mixed reviews. The American Petroleum Institute found the study to be irrelevant...
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Steady Increase in Flights Will Outweigh Carbon Cuts
2014-08-10 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The aviation industry insists that it is making only a tiny contribution to global warming, with just 2 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions coming from its aircraft. Even if the aviation industry tries to reduce its carbon emissions, they will be outweighed by the growth in air traffic, even if the most contentious mitigation measures come into force, according to researchers in the UK. The problem is the speed at which aviation itself is growing. One aircraft builder believes the number...
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Forests for the future: Kenya's carbon credit scheme
2014-08-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: When 61-year old Mercy Joshua was young, the vast forests of southeastern Kenya teemed with wildlife, but decades of unchecked deforestation by locals have devastated the land. She watched forests dwindle and rivers dry up across her homeland of Kasigau -- a semi-arid savanna grassland dotted with shrubs, woodland and small rugged hills -- as people cut down the trees to scratch a living by selling them for firewood. But now, after decades of degradation, a local project has found a way to...
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The story of unburnable carbon
2014-08-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Analysis from one group of financial experts could dramatically change the energy landscape for the better but our communication needs to improve before it can. This article originally appeared in Blue & Green Tomorrows Guide to Sustainable Clean Energy 2014. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr stood on the steps of Washingtons Lincoln Memorial and told 250,000 people about his dream of a more equal society. His speech is considered one of the most powerful in human history and his...
Green Billionaires Club? David Vitter Owns Stock in Coal Utilities Fighting EPA Carbon Rules
2014-08-09 05:03:03| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
We Energies says it stands to lose economically if the proposed Obama EPA carbon rules are implemented, citing the potential risks related to legislation and regulation in its most recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-Q .
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