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Chevron Texaco Boycott

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Toxic Waste spewed into the worlds forests, should this company be boycotted?

After years of legal battles they still act like the victims here???? very strange behavior???

http://rt.com/shows/breaking-set-summary/chevron-oil-nestle-us-294/

Let us know what You think?

New IPCC Conclusion, they are 95% certain Humans cause climate change..

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The report by the UN’s climate panel details the physical evidence behind climate change.
On the ground, in the air, in the oceans, global warming is “unequivocal”, it explained.
It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends.

The panel warns that continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all aspects of the climate system.

To contain these changes will require “substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions”.
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Here is the statement from the Latest IPCC report:

“It is extremely likely [95 percent confidence] that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951−2010.”
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More details:

http://www.ipcc.ch/

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/

European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ 1

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Since 2005, the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by Europe’s trees has been slowing, researchers report in a new study. Writing in Nature Climate Change, the report said this was a result of a declining volume of trees, deforestation and the impact of natural disturbances. Carbon sinks play a key […]