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Huge Pension Fund in Norway Will Divest Many of Its Coal Holdings
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 5th, 2015
Yale Environment 360: The Norwegian Parliament has voted to sell off many of the coal-related investments in the government’s massive $890 billion pension fund, a significant boost to the growing fossil fuel divestment movement. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is the largest such government fund in the world, and parliament voted Friday to order the fund to shift its investments out of billions of dollars of stock in companies that rely at least 30 percent on coal. A spokesman for the firm that manages the government’s...
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Comments Off on Huge Pension Fund in Norway Will Divest Many of Its Coal HoldingsWorld Environment Day: UN Asks Us Each for One Change
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on June 5th, 2015
Environment News Service: Many of the Earth`s ecosystems are approaching "critical tipping points," the United Nations warned today, World Environment Day. The world body accompanied the warning with an invitation to each of the planet`s 7.247 billion plus people to mark the day by making one change towards more responsible consumption of resources, such as flying with e-tickets instead of paper tickets or riding a bike to work.
"Humanity continues to consume far more natural resources than the planet can sustainably provide....
Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on June 5th, 2015
EcoWatch: Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, has been warming even faster than other regions of the world due to climate change. That was the findings of a report this spring from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which found that the rate of warming will only continue to increase in the coming decades.
Insane heat in Alaska--90 deg temps near Fairbanks, records toppling like, um, snowmen in May http://t.co/mo6xgGKqoR pic.twitter.com/3yqhV0Sbt6
-- Bill McKibben...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 5th, 2015
National Geographic: A reported pause in global warming-a mystery that has vexed scientists and delighted contrarians-was an illusion based on inadequate data, U.S. government researchers reported Thursday.
The findings by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers that there was no warming "hiatus" over the past 15 years could reshape consensus science on recent climate change. The research undercuts an argument of pundits and politicians who oppose taking action.
In the new report, NOAA's...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Science challenges claim that global warming took a hiatusNOAA: There Has Been No ‘Pause’ or ‘Hiatus’ in Global Warming
Posted by EcoWatch: Michael Mann on June 5th, 2015
EcoWatch: Just out in Science is a new article by Tom Karl of NOAA`s National Climatic Data Center and colleagues driving another stake through the heart of the supposed “hiatus” or “pause,” i.e. what I like to call the “Faux Pause.”
I expect this article will be attacked by climate change deniers who are unhappy to see the demise of a narrative they helped frame, a narrative that arguably took hold due in part to the “seepage” of contrarian framing into mainstream climate science discourse.
Because...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 5th, 2015
Climate Central: The seemingly endless and often torrential rains that deluged Texas and Oklahoma in May are in some ways a harbinger of what the South Central states can expect to see as the world warms. But the region also could be in store for just the opposite – more long bouts of hot, dry days that could cause the Southern Plains to be even more susceptible to drought than they already are. The juxtaposition between these trends is an example of the complex and sometimes unpredictable way that climate change...
EPA: Fracking Doesn’t Cause ‘Widespread’ Pollution, Experts Cry Foul
Posted by Sputnik: None Given on June 5th, 2015
Sputnik: The US Environmental Protection Agency says that, while hydraulic fracturing has the potential to contaminate drinking water, and has done so on some occasions, there is no evidence of "widespread" pollution across the country, according to a draft report released by Thursday.
The report, commissioned by Congress, claims to be the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the effect on drinking water of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The process involves pumping chemical-laden water deep underground...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on EPA: Fracking Doesn’t Cause ‘Widespread’ Pollution, Experts Cry FoulEPA Finds No Widespread Drinking Water Pollution Fracking
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 4th, 2015
National Public Radio: The Environmental Protection Agency says it has found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing - better known as fracking - has led to widespread pollution of drinking water. The oil industry and its backers welcome the long-awaited study, while environmental groups criticize it.
"We found the hydraulic fracturing activities in the United States are carried out in a way that has not led to widespread systemic impacts on drinking water resources," says Tom Burke, science adviser and deputy assistant...
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Posted by Grist: None Given on June 4th, 2015
Grist: Rick Perry became the zillionth Republican seeking his party`s 2016 nomination when he announced his second presidential run in Dallas Thursday morning. The former Texas governor joined a crowded field of GOP contenders, and he has at least one thing in common with most of his competitors who aren`t named George Pataki: He rejects the science behind climate change.
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Perry regularly questioned climate science, saying that it hadn`t been settled. "There are...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 3 things Rick Perry knows global warming: It’s a hoax, not a scientist and … we forget the thirdEnvironmentalists sue to protect fish amid California drought measures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 4th, 2015
Reuters: California environmental groups have sued state and federal water managers, claiming that their drought-management plan for projects below the crucial Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is pushing some species of fish to the brink of extinction.
The lawsuit marks the latest salvo in the battle over water in California as the state suffers through its fourth year of a devastating drought that has prompted strict conservation measures.
"We bring this lawsuit in an effort to prevent the impending...
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