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Fossil fuel industry must take stranded assets seriously, says Tim Yeo
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 15th, 2015
Guardian: The chairman of parliament’s energy and climate change committee has joined those warning the fossil fuel industry to take the threat of stranded assets seriously, and believes Shell is wrong to write off critics as naive.
Tim Yeo, a veteran Conservative MP and nuclear enthusiast, also expressed alarm at the latest delays at the new Hinkley Point building project in Somerset, saying he hoped they would not lead to eventual cancellation.
Shell’s chief executive, Ben van Beurden, told a dinner...
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12 terrifying ways researchers think human civilisation likely end
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 15th, 2015
Independent: Researchers at Oxford University have compiled a “scientific assessment about the possibility of oblivion”.
The scientists from the Global Challenges Foundation and the Future of Humanity Institute used their research to draw up a list of the 12 most likely ways human civilisation could end on planet earth.
“[This research] is about how a better understanding of the magnitude of the challenges can help the world to address the risks it faces, and can help to create a path towards more sustainable...
Pennsylvania vs. climate change
Posted by Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Ed Perry on February 15th, 2015
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Slowly but surely, Lyme disease has reached near epidemic proportions in Pennsylvania. Twenty years ago, most of us never heard of Lyme disease. Now, most of us know someone who has had it and many of us have had it as well. Ticks not only are more abundant in Pennsylvania, but they also have migrated into Canada. It's no coincidence that warmer winters have facilitated the spread of ticks to the North.
Another noxious insect pest, the wooly adelgid, is decimating our state tree, the hemlock....
Satellites gauge dangerous rising sea levels due to climate change
Posted by Tribune: John Lindsey on February 15th, 2015
Tribune: John Swigert: “OK, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”
Houston: “This is Houston. Say again please.”
Jim Lovell: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
That famous and chilling conversation by the crew of Apollo 13 aboard their ill-fated spacecraft could very well describe the Earth’s condition at this time.
Today, we are seeing rising sea levels from global warming that can have devastating consequences. The rising seas combined with waves generated by high winds, storm surges, storm runoff...