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- Exxon Mobil is being investigated for keeping climate change research from investors. Since 2007, it has disclosed to shareholders about potential risks posed to its bottom line by climate change. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In the battle over the science of climate change, oil and gas money has helped fund the skeptics.
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Ocean warming doubles in recent decades Ocean warming doubles in recent decades. Lawrence Livermore, NOAA and partner scientists quantify heat accumulating in global ocean. Editor's note: The following web story was provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The original story can be found by clicking here on the Lawrence Livermore website.
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Climate Change and Global Warming Research has shown that air pollutants from fossil fuel use make clouds reflect more of the sun’s rays back into space. This leads to an effect known as global dimming whereby less heat and energy reaches the earth. At first, it sounds like an ironic savior to climate change problems.
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Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Jamaica Under the institutional component: 1  A climate change awareness campaign has been rolled out in 8 parishes, namely Trelawny, St James, St Ann, St Thomas, Hanover, Clarendon, St Elizabeth and Westmoreland, and across 14 schools. 2  The procurement of GIS software has been completed, and a spatial database has been developed.
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Gore: Nobel win a chance 'to change the way people think' Gore: Nobel win a chance 'to change the way people think'. PALO ALTO, California (CNN) -- Sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize helps underscore the urgency of the climate crisis, said former Vice President Al Gore on Friday. This is a chance to elevate global consciousness about the challenges that we face now, said Al Gore.
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Introductionto Energy & Climate Change Thanks to America’s energy revolution, the broad availability of natural gas and its increasing use in the power-generation sector also is playing a significant role, helping to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to near 20-year lows.
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Our history Exxon establishes the Save The Tiger Fund in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The Save The Tiger Fund is dedicated to supporting the conservation of Asia’s remaining wild tigers. Since its establishment, ExxonMobil has provided $1 million annually in support of the Save The Tiger Fund.
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- 6A. City Manager-Workshop regarding ExxonMobil use of Modified Hydrogen Fluoride (MHF) Catalyst. Recommendation of the City Manager that City Council conduct a workshop, receive public input, and provide direction for going forward with respect to: 1) Assessment of City position with respect to Exxon Mobil AQMD application.
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Al Gore's Hypocrisy: The Climate Crusader Profits from Fossil Fuels Al Jazeera had the money to pay Gore $500 million because of fossil fuels. Lauer asked Gore if he saw a contradiction in his position. While Gore said he understands the criticism, he disagrees with it because Al Jazeera is a great network and has won major awards.
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Al Goreâs Personal Energy Use Is His Own âInconvenient Truthâ - And Replies Monday, February 26, 2007 - by Drew Johnson, Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
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New âCarbon Trapâ Report: G20 Nations Financed $76 Billion in Coal Development Worldwide Media Contacts. WASHINGTON – In a glaring conflict with their global climate commitments, the world’s largest economies are continuing to pour billions into financing of overseas coal power plants, coal mining and coal infrastructure—trapping the world into decades of dangerous carbon emissions that will worsen climate change, a new report shows.
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- Baylor University. Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins: Study sheds light on potential issues facing populations, environments in the region.. ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 October 2015.
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- The City was awarded a $300,000 Climate Ready grant (Grant Agreement 13-090) by the State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) on January 23, 2014 to conduct a vulnerability assessment and develop adaptation strategies to address the effects that sea level rise (SLR) could have on coastal resources along the Pacific Ocean shoreline of Imperial Beach.
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The Cheapest 2016 Cars To Insure Once again the vehicles enjoying the lowest average insurance rates in the U.S. are family-minded minivans and SUVs, which account for nine spots out of the 10 cheapest 2016 cars to insure as compiled by the website Insure.com. The Honda Odyssey LX minivan takes the top spot this year (after placing fourth for 2015) with an annual average premium of $1,113.
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The business cost of climate change: what the science says The business cost of climate change: what the science says. Honda lost more than $250m in 2011, when car assembly plants in Thailand flooded (pdf) during an especially heavy monsoon season.
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ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show. Exxon. ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show. The world's largest oil company is continuing to fund lobby groups that question the reality of global warming, despite a public pledge to cut support for such climate change denial, a new analysis shows. Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008.
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Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago. The company’s knowledge of climate change dates back to July 1977, when its senior scientist James Black delivered a sobering message on the topic. Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue, according to a recent investigation from InsideClimate News.
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Countries Are Donating Billions To A Global Fund â Here's What It's For REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst. To say that money makes the world go 'round is no exaggeration — not even when it comes to fighting climate change. In fact, it's so important that the United Nations has created a fund just for climate-related cash – and its balance just broke $10 billion.
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Trump on the Paris Agreement But when we asked the White House for support for Trump’s claim that the U.S. “pays billions of dollars” for the Paris Agreement while China, Russia and India have paid and will pay “nothing,” White House spokesman Steven Cheung specifically referred us to the Green Climate Fund.
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- Tiny Danish island a global model for clean energy. In our continuing series, The Climate Diaries, we visit the tiny Danish island of Samso. It's making big progress against global warming, and people from around the world are heading there to see how it's done. Mark Phillips reports on how they’ve found a way to reduce their greenhouse gas output to effectively zero.
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- Baylor University. (2015, October 19). Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins: Study sheds light on potential issues facing populations, environments in the region. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 14, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151019142801.htm.
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Climate Resiliency Climate Change Integrated Modeling Project In December 2008 DEP initiated the Climate Change Integrated Modeling Project (CCIMP) to evaluate potential impacts on New York City’s water supply system using downscaled climate change projections coupled with DEP’s watershed and reservoir modeling tools.
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- BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon. September 27, 2015 | Todd Hollingshead. This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it.
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Rex Tillersonâs Company, Exxon, Has Billions at Stake Over Sanctions on Russia Exxon Mobil has various projects afoot in Russia that are allowed under American sanctions. But others have been ground to a halt by the sanctions, including a deal with the Russian state oil company to explore and pump in Siberia that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Climate change: the Hoax that Costs Us $4 Billion a Day The global climate change industry is worth an annual $1.5 trillion, according to Climate Change Business Journal. That’s the equivalent of $4 billion a day spent on vital stuff like carbon trading, biofuels, and wind turbines. Or — as Jo Nova notes — it’s the same amount the world spends every year on online shopping.
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Scientific opinion on climate change NAGT strongly supports and will work to promote education in the science of climate change, the causes and effects of current global warming, and the immediate need for policies and actions that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.