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Bill McKibben Arrested + 56 Others Against Proposed Gas Storage Seneca Lake
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on March 7th, 2016
EcoWatch: The fight over the fate of the Finger Lakes received national attention today when best-selling author, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, joined the opposition. McKibben, 55, was arrested this morning with 56 area residents as part of an ongoing civil disobedience campaign against proposed gas storage in Seneca Lake’s abandoned salt caverns.
This is a developing story, but at this time all arrestees have been released except for McKibben who is still in custody at the Schuyler...
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Why Leo DiCaprio is just another climate hypocrite
Posted by New York Post: Karol Markowicz on March 7th, 2016
New York Post: Like most A-list celebrities in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio is frequently in the news.
There’s DiCaprio, in Cannes, France, on David Geffen’s mega yacht, alone. And there he is on a different yacht in St. Tropez with his blonde of the month.
There he is getting off a private plane in the celebrity uniform of sunglasses and hoodie. And there he is getting on one again.
And last week, there he was in Davos, Switzerland, lecturing us all and blaming corporate greed for causing global climate...
During the most important year for climate news, TV coverage fell
Posted by Guardian: Dana Nuccitelli on March 7th, 2016
Guardian: Media Matters for America has published a report detailing US broadcast news coverage of climate change in 2015, and their findings are stunning.
2015 was a banner year for climate news. February, June, October, November, and December were each their respective hottest months on record, and 2015 shattered the record for hottest year. The pope delivered a climate encyclical. Investigative journalists at Inside Climate News discovered that Exxon knew about the dangers of human-caused global warming...
China’s carbon emissions still increasing: China envoy
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 7th, 2016
Reuters: China's carbon emissions did not peak in 2014 and are still increasing, China's senior climate change envoy, Xie Zhenhua, said at a press briefing in Beijing on Monday.
Xie said the government's pledge that emissions would peak "around 2030" is based on national conditions and has a direct relationship with the country's stage of economic development.
A study published on Monday said China's emissions, the world's highest, may have peaked in 2014.