Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Vinson, a supporter of the late Margaret Thatcher, has previously donated nearly £50,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) through his own charity. The GWPF was founded in 2009 by climate denier Nigel Lawson , the ex-chancellor, to combat “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. Meller Designs was referred to the VIP lane by Gove’s office.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. In April, the GWPF published a paper claiming that there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

In yet another reminder that many of the very serious consequences of climate change are happening NOW, scientists say global warming may have given rise to its first new fungal disease — a multidrug-resistant species called Candida auris. The deadly menace, which was first identified in 2009, isn’t your typical fungus.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Climate Science Denial Groups Global Warming Policy Foundation / Net Zero Watch The opaquely-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, is the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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Politics Climate change Global warming Policy 89

DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

The libertarian think tank has for decades questioned and downplayed links between industrial activities and global temperature rise. Only 60 percent of people nationally say that global temperature rise is real and mostly caused by humans, according to a survey last year from the polling firm Research Co.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’. Bates told DeSmog that he was unable to publish the piece elsewhere through a peer-reviewed process as it was “rejected unilaterally”.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Health 84

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

By 2020 the firm had achieved a 73 per cent carbon intensity reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions from a 2009 baseline, largely through a focusing on improving the energy efficiency of its properties, which in total amount to 22.8 million square feet of floor space.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Real Estate Energy Monitor 69

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. August 18, 2009. Indeed, Exxon says it has spent only $300 million on its algae biofuels research since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal , a rounding error for the company.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As reported by the Washington Post , the phenomenon of rapid intensification is happening more frequently in the Atlantic due to global warming. Like many of his peers, NOAA researcher Jim Kossin thinks warm ocean waters are contributing to the rapid intensification of storms.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As reported by the Washington Post , the phenomenon of rapid intensification is happening more frequently in the Atlantic due to global warming. Like many of his peers, NOAA researcher Jim Kossin thinks warm ocean waters are contributing to the rapid intensification of storms.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Because of the importance of agriculture and rural area, Vietnam’s government launched Nation Target Programme on New Rural Development or the National Target Program on Climate Change in the year 2009. The effect of global warming has already started to impact Vietnam. Concluding Words .

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said. However, Macquarie still plans to continue to fund oil and gas developments. "We

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Global warming 40

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Global warming 40

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

2009; Steffen, W., We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

As such, the former Labour leader emphasised the importance of spreading the positive messages associated with climate action, rather than dwelling solely on the huge threats posed by global warming. He said it was an "incredible honour" to present the award to Betts, with whom he worked at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. "He

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Ethics Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 96

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world’s coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. There has been a long campaign by power, coal, and oil companies to mislead the public about the science of global warming,” the lawsuit stated, specifically naming ExxonMobil, AEP, BP America Inc., A Tragic Accident.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. But as global temperatures have risen over the decades, the fungus may have evolved to adapt to a warmer climate. And global warming could help other fungal pathogens spread, too. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C.

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Agriculture Climate change Health North America 74

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their 2009 report concluded that but for the social and political impediments, the economic and technological wheels were in place to transition the world’s all-purpose energy demand to 100% WWS. He agreed and recruited research scientist Mark Delucchi of UC Davis to help (Delucchi has been a regular co-author of many of Jacobson’s studies).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. The GWPF was set up by the late Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor of the exchequer, in 2009, and has consistently spread climate science denial. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Policy Politics 143

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Transportation Carbon-neutral 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The report, which was funded by the Zurich Flood Insurance Alliance, looked at the level of climate finance so far committed by 23 developed nations which signed up to the $100bn a year goal in 2009. It concluded the UK was one of 20 countries which are still not paying their 'fair share' towards the collective target.

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Government Politics Global warming COP 46

Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In fact they have prominently opposed such action, regularly providing space for climate scepticism and running frontpage stories that challenged the existence of global warming and its relationship to human activity. Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. The Daily Express.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Europe 88

Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. To limit global warming to 1.5C And then again in 2015. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 means starting the transition now.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 up to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050 (Fairley, 2009). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). Fairley, P.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 52

Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”.

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Earth Day Home Energy Monitoring Ozone Energy Monitor 84

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril.

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