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Keystone Pipeline Report Predicts Little Climate Impact – WSJ.com

Friday, January 31st, 2014

‘WASHINGTON—An Obama administration analysis of the Keystone XL pipeline said the project would not likely change the amount of oil ultimately removed from Canadian oil sands, suggesting that building the pipeline would have little impact on global climate change.’

via Keystone Pipeline Report Predicts Little Climate Impact – WSJ.com.

Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied On Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit

Friday, January 31st, 2014

‘WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency monitored the communications of other governments ahead of and during the 2009 United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to the latest document from whistleblower Edward Snowden.’

via Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied On Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit.

United Nations appoints former NYC Mayor Bloomberg cities, climate change envoy | Reuters

Friday, January 31st, 2014

‘(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as his special envoy for cities and climate change, in a bid to build momentum ahead of a planned U.N. conference in September.’

via United Nations appoints former NYC Mayor Bloomberg cities, climate change envoy | Reuters.

For Already Vulnerable Penguins, Study Finds Climate Change Is Another Danger – NYTimes.com

Friday, January 31st, 2014

‘Life has never been easy for just-hatched Magellanic penguins, but climate change is making it worse, according to a decades-long study of the largest breeding colony of the birds.’

via For Already Vulnerable Penguins, Study Finds Climate Change Is Another Danger – NYTimes.com.

‘Climate change is a fact,’ Obama declares | TheHill

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

‘President Obama said the debate over climate change is settled during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening.’

via ‘Climate change is a fact,’ Obama declares | TheHill.

Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

“In 2007, Pete Seeger performed in Beacon, N.Y. and spoke with The Times’s Andrew C. Revkin about climate change. Mr. Seeger died on Monday at age 94.”

via Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com.

Beijing’s mayor urges all-out effort to curb air pollution | Reuters

Monday, January 27th, 2014

‘(Reuters) – Beijing’s mayor pledged on Thursday to cut coal use by 2.6 million tonnes and set aside 15 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) to improve air quality this year as part of the city’s “all-out effort” to tackle air pollution, state news agency Xinhua said.’

via Beijing’s mayor urges all-out effort to curb air pollution | Reuters.

Obama’s pivotal pipeline call | Reuters.com

Monday, January 27th, 2014

‘WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will lay out an agenda on jobs and the economy during his State of the Union speech – but he’s unlikely to mention the politically charged Keystone XL oil pipeline.’

via Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters.com.

Backsliding on the Climate – NYTimes.com

Friday, January 24th, 2014

‘Pay now to reduce carbon emissions and make the transition to clean energy or pay much more dearly later. That’s the message from a draft United Nations report on climate change issued last month. It’s a message the European Commission, which is debating whether to temper its clean energy goals, would do well to heed.’

via Backsliding on the Climate – NYTimes.com.

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change – NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

‘Today, after a decade of increasing damage to Coke’s balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.’

via Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change – NYTimes.com.