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Many companies are switching to renewable energy sources or at least combining them will the usual fossil fuel-driven sources. Whether these changes are caused by the want to reduce costs or reduce emissions is not important, the end result is the same. One company trying to establish themselves as a more environmentally friendly is General Mills.
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General Mills Increases Efforts To Use Renewables
A new study has shed new light on how climate change may impact global levels of oceans. The study points out that sea level rise may not be uniform across the world as climate change itself impacts how the wind circulates air above the surface of the ocean. Some coastal areas are bound to experience rise while some may see fall in sea levels. The study gave the instance of some landmasses on the Indian Ocean. Sea levels in the Indian Ocean are rising in some areas and falling in others, partly as a result of climate change and its effect on winds. Climate change is causing complex changes in how the air circulates around the globe.
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Study Says That Wind Patterns May Have Big Say in Sea Level Rise and Fall
While skeptics argue the fact, the world is most likely heading towards a number of changes due to climate change. Predictions have been made, but no one is certain how the impacts will unravel. Despite this, it is important to be informed and aware of the potential outcomes. In a similar fashion to insurance companies predicting floods and tornadoes, a recent study is predicting the cost of climate change on the United States
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Study Predicts Losses Across U.S. Due To Climate Change Driven Droughts
Chinese protectionism of their clean energy market is a real problem, but one that we can cure with our own domestic investment, writes CAP’s Julian L. Wong in this cross-post . Foreign governments’ and businesses’ frustration and disgruntlement over China’s restrictions on trade and foreign investment is reaching fever pitch. First it was Jeff Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric in a speech in Rome earlier this month raising the question of whether China “want[s] any of us to win, or any of us to be successful.” Then it was the chief executives of BASF and Siemens together with German chancellor Angela Merkel in an exchange with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao last weekend in Beijing, who all reportedly used pointed language to call China’s restrictive foreign investment and trade policies to question. These complaints, while valid, point to a larger problem here in the United States—we give the Chinese government leverage by not giving companies valid market alternatives.
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Dealing with Chinese protectionism of their clean energy market
“If we look at the Indian scene and look at the actions being taken by state and central governments, it’s a little bit difficult to understand why it is so difficult to get strong legislation passed domestically in the United States,” said Arabinda Misrah, director of the Climate Change Division at The Energy Resources Institute in India, at a CAP panel discussion on Thursday. Misrah was joined by climate experts from around the world, who described continuing and ambitious efforts to reduce carbon emissions in Europe and the developing world and expressed confusion and dismay at the U.S. Senate’s inability to move such legislation forward, as this CAP cross-post explains
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The world (futilely) waits for U.S. leadership on climate