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Sandy, Katrina a taste of what global warming will bring, UGA ecologist says
2013-04-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Online Athens: Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy were separated by more than 1,300 miles and eight years, but they share one big thing in common, according to University of Georgia ecologist James Porter: They were exactly the sort of destructive superstorms we will see more frequently, as global warming advances and sea levels rise. No single weather event can be chalked up to global warming but climate scientists believe that warmer temperatures will fuel bigger and more frequent hurricanes, Porter told a University...
ExxonMobil deserves a pat on the back for Arkansas spill response, says representative
2013-04-18 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: ExxonMobils recent oil spill dumped some 200,000 gallons into Mayflower, Ark., killed wildlife, and caused 22 homes to be evacuated. As the Natural Resources committee takes up another bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) argued at a hearing that the spill is more evidence the Keystone XL pipeline is a safe bet for Americans. Comparing the safety of a pipeline to other transportation methods, Mullin said there is no reason to make a big deal about the spill:...
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Include indirect emissions in EU biofuels policy, says MEP
2013-04-18 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Proposed amendments to the EU's biofuels policy could see distinctions made between fuels on the basis of their climate impact. The move was advocated in a European Parliament report into the EU's current proposals to tackle the problem of indirect emissions arising from land-use change, published by French MEP Corinne Lepage yesterday. Some studies of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) factors suggest that growing crops for energy displaces agricultural production, forcing farmers to clear forests,...
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France Should Explore Potential of Shale Resources, Senator Says
2013-04-18 11:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: France should allow exploration for shale oil and gas to gauge potential reserves even after banning hydraulic fracturing used to extract the fuels, the author of a report into alternative technologies told fellow lawmakers. We cant close the door to research, said Jean-Claude Lenoir, a senator whos researching the alternatives to so- called fracking, banned in 2011. Good sense tells us we should allow exploration to see how much resources we actually have. He spoke at a parliamentary hearing...
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West doing little for climate change, says Manmohan
2013-04-17 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindustan Times: Voicing his concern on "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hit at rich nations for not doing enough to fight climate change. Singh, while inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions. "They (industrialised nations) also have high per capita incomes which gives them the highest capacity...
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