DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

The county argues oil companies’ “campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products” delayed climate action for decades, robbing communities of precious time to mitigate the climate-driven disasters they now face. Global Change Research Program during the George W.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last week, I heard someone cite the old “the carbon footprint was invented by BP to put the blame on the consumer” meme. It is all too easy to persuade ourselves that, while others must change, we are an exception. I’ve long said that Sustainability is about change and change is about psychology.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A TalkTV presenter co-hosts a YouTube show with the leader of a climate science denial group, on which he has called climate change a “paganistic religion” and said rising CO2 emissions will make the world “more green”. Walker is not the only TalkTV host to have attacked climate action and science.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The new UK Prime Minister has appointed multiple advisors with a record of opposing climate action, including a key aide from a think tank funded by oil giant BP. Liz Truss ’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

With the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warning the world that we have very limited time to reverse the warming of the planet , it is no longer adequate to blame large corporations who emit the most greenhouse gases. It’s no longer enough to blame transportation or the meat industry.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

And who could blame it? In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Is that possible? When oil and gas companies say that they’re getting out of oil and gas, shouldn’t you? In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After decades of intense public debate and misinformation campaigns, nearly three-quarters of Americans now accept that climate change is happening ; not only that, more than half understand it is caused by human activity. But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” The media are indeed a big factor in that.”

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Below is a LinkedIn post I put up a few days ago about the climate protest at the (tennis) US Open. Yes, protests can p**s people off, but they can also speak to those who agree with them and maybe embolden them — imagine some of the conversations on the way home in some families with mixed views on climate.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of my bugbears is the constant attempts to shift the ‘blame’ for climate change to someone else – whether it is China, Big Business or the Super-Rich. Concerned about the damage being done to its corporate reputation by the climate crisis, BP hired a public relations firm to bolster its image.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that at first glance may not seem like a space for personal action: policy. should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. Most Americans agree that the U.S. Because if we do that, politicians will follow.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Wait until you see how climate change is leading to more devastating hurricanes. Increasing average global temperatures and climate change could be to blame. Read on for a closer look at how climate change, ocean temperature, and hurricanes are related and how to be prepared. Read on to learn more.

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Rinexii

MAY 15, 2020

Climate change impacts some areas more than others. Alaskan communities are struggling due to changes caused by climate change, and they need our help. Climate change has threatened over 200 indigenous communities, forcing whole villages to move from lands their ancestors have walked for centuries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The revelation comes as the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government’s independent advisory body on climate change, today stated that the UK is missing its climate targets on nearly every front. The letter was signed by 29 Conservative MPs and peers.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. What we can say is they were risk multipliers.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Have a more sensible, aspirational, optimistic approach to tackling climate change and net zero,” Mayer told an IEA-run panel titled: “Energy Crisis: Can the UK Afford Net Zero?” at the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham today. The IEA is holding several high-profile conference events with ministers.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hundreds of ranchers actually already are using regenerative methods, pointed out Peter Byck of Arizona State University, who is leading a major study into the impact of these methods. We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The underwhelming final results of the COP26 climate change conference reminded me of the old joke: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. As regular readers know, I try not to point the finger of blame at any particular person or organisation.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

A Tory MP leading a backbench revolt against climate action recently received £5,000 from the chair of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. GWPF-founder Lord Nigel Lawson, who is also a board member of the Forum/Net Zero Watch, recently wrote that “global warming is not a problem”. Consultant Donation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. They also found a rise in content related to outright climate-science denial by ‘anti-woke’ pundits on Twitter, who pushed #ClimateScam and lines such as ‘climate is a hoax’.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In the not-too-distant past, a small group of architects and people in the building industry, saddened and motivated by the urgent arc of climate change, set out to discover just how much their own profession was to blame. They are trying to change the way materials are made. A careful accounting of embodied carbon.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change. Climate change is already hurting us much more than we realize,” said Benjamin Strauss, chief scientist at the research and communications nonprofit Climate Central and one of the study’s authors. billion in damages. billion in damages.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. a prominent theory for its sudden explosion has emerged: climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who played a key role in brokering the Paris Agreement, was renowned for using every conceivable ruse to charm, chivvy, and cajole world leaders to act. What lies underneath the perennial deadlocks at climate conferences, or the enduring grip of the fossil fuel lobby on the way we order our lives?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit calculated the average household that improved its energy efficiency, installed solar panels and a heat pump, and switched to an EV would enjoy running costs that were nearly £2,000 a year lower than a household with no clean technologies in place.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Tue, 06/08/2021 - 02:12. Put down that beet-juice burger. The next big wave in plant-based protein is fake fish. Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

According to an analysis of hourly rainfall data released Wednesday by the nonprofit science and media organization Climate Central, the U.S. And climate change is largely to blame. According to Climate Central, this highlights the paradoxical risks of extreme precipitation everywhere — even in places becoming drier.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Their international allies range from climate science denying organisations to former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. Ricardo Salles, who used his position as environment minister to weaken policies to protect the Amazon, has also worked with IMIL through his right-wing movement, Movimento Endireita Brasil.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

António Guterres urges businesses and governments to deliver fresh, ambitious climate plans at September 2023 summit. The price of entry is non-negotiable - credible, serious and new climate action and nature-based solutions that will move the needle forward and respond to the urgency of the climate crisis," he said. "It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In addition, its oil is some of the most carbon-heavy in the world, with up to 20 percent higher emissions, and that has drawn the attention of climate advocates. As he explains in the book, “Canada could slow down climate change, or it could tap one of the world’s largest oil reserves — but it couldn’t do both.” Geoff Dembicki.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt underscores government’s commitment to tackling 'existential' climate threat with new nuclear projects and energy efficiency funding, but green groups slam Autumn Statement that 'falls woefully short'. The United Kingdom has been a global leader on climate change, cutting emissions by more than any other G20 country," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Boris Johnson's premiership has ended in failure, the opportunity to shape a new era of climate action squandered by a fundamental lack of seriousness. And while many mainstream commentators fail to recognise it, climate action was a quietly integral part of the story. Just a few days later, the first 'partygate' story would break.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our Global Investor Study 2020 reveals investor and consumer views on company responsibility for tackling climate change, writes Schroders' Vicki Owen. Who do people think should be responsible for mitigating climate change? Questions have been asked about what Covid-19 could teach us about tackling climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Others have failed to mention climate at all. Attorney General.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5 Talking climate. New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Five years ago, some earnest academics published a study linking the war in Syria with climate change. Much of the media and the twittersphere fell about laughing, parodying the study by blaming climate change for their football team losing or tripping over their shoelaces.

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