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Heritage Foundation Hosts UK Climate Science Denier at Event Opposing ‘Green Energy’

DeSmogBlog

The Heritage Foundation panel event on December 8, called “ Lessons for America from Europe’s Green Energy Disaster ”, featured Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. The GWPF published two reports this year rejecting climate science on the greenhouse effect.

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Trump’s exit might not be the Paris Agreement’s biggest problem

Grist

in 2016, set a target of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, with an ambitious goal of keeping it below 1.5 To achieve this stricter goal, global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be slashed in half from current levels by 2030. So, with the U.S.

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

Grist

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” Far from it.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz positioned natural gas as the bridge to renewables. Some people say this is the new normal. Former U.S.

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C The new assessment, like its predecessor Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C C (2°F), with serious consequences for human lives and livelihoods, as the recent report from the U.N. Edwards , William J.

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Climate Advocates Voice Concerns Over Fossil Fuel Handouts in Stalled Infrastructure Legislation

DeSmogBlog

Later that month, she told me that she sees the continued destruction of coastal communities as a reminder that leaders have done little to protect us from the catastrophic impacts of global warming despite decades of warnings from climate scientists. Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar with her children Aralyn and Dale Jr.