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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . Making natural gas renewable . The urgency is growing.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Pump up the volume: Hydrogen hits the big time

Hydrogen Fuel News

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. Despite the growing interest in renewable hydrogen, the cost has remained an impediment to widespread adoption and displacement of the fossil-fuel derived hydrogen that dominates the current market.

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Texas Crisis Drives First Public Power Bankruptcy, With More Fallout Expected

GreenTechMedia

Freezing temperatures caused cascading problems in the state’s natural-gas production and delivery network that restricted fuel supply to the power plants relied upon for about two-thirds of wintertime electricity supply. It also froze up sensors and cooling systems that forced natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants to trip offline.

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Jordan Peterson Generates Millions of YouTube Hits for Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Fringe climate crisis deniers who claim that the earth is “cooling” and greenhouse emissions are good for “biological productivity” are getting exposed to millions more people than they normally would on YouTube thanks to conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. She didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog. It’s out!” It now has over 1.04

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The world's kilns, reactors, chillers, and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. Making natural gas renewable. The urgency is growing.

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Utilities must educate customers about their power to curb climate change

Renewable Energy World

The IPCC report on climate change has been called a “code red” for humanity, with its finding that temperatures rose more in the past 50 years than any time over the past 2000 years, and is continuing to rise more rapidly than expected. Instead, the fossil fuel industry is perpetuating the carbon economy.