NY Court Orders Exxon To Provide AG Missing Private Emails

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ExxonMobil was ordered Wednesday to disclose a trove of missing emails from an alias once used by the company’s former CEO for communicating with the oil producer’s other executives. A judge directed Exxon to hand over the communications to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who has been investigating the company’s climate research since […]

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March 23, 2017 at 06:42AM

UK Starts Drilling First Fracking Wells

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Local government officials gave the energy company IGas permission to drill the first hydraulically-fractured well in Britain Wednesday. IGas and several other energy firms believe portions of the UK are sitting atop abundant, commercially viable natural gas. “The UK is at a critical juncture in the future of our energy mix and supply as we […]

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March 23, 2017 at 06:42AM

Climate caused Brexit sayth the Gore

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Righto. It’s time to blame climate change for causing British voters to vote against German rule of Britain.

Back when the climate was ideal, the Brits would have been happy to leave decisions about immigration, fishing and light bulbs to their friends in Europe.

Instead, even though the world hasn’t warmed since the formation of the EU, it’s breaking up because of climate change.

Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore

Brexit was caused in part by climate change, former US Vice-President Al Gore has said, warning that extreme weather is creating political instability “the world will find extremely difficult to deal with”.

Really, it’s all about coal, cars and plastic bags.  If the EU had only put in more wind farms, the UK would have voted to stay in.

It’s not like Al Gore to draw conclusions from a long nebulous chain of dubious reasoning, but here’s how it goes: Coal gives off CO2, which causes droughts according to models that don’t work, and that made Syrians migrate. Everyone got unhappy and voted for Brexit.

Mr Gore, speaking at an event in which he previewed a sequel to his landmark 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, said the “principal” cause […]

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March 23, 2017 at 06:03AM