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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report.

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Italy’s Eni Faces Lawsuit Alleging Early Knowledge Of Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane!

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

The word Anthropocene was coined by biologist Eugene Stormer and chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 and has since gained popularity and acclaim. . Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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The Cost of Doing Business in the Heat

Sustainability Consulting

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016. and Canada alone.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. kg CO2e per day.

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Deforestation emissions far higher than previously thought, study finds

Grist

Since 2000, the world has lost about 10 percent of its tree cover , becoming a major driver of global heating. We must reduce deforestation to slow global warming,” said Yu Feng. When trees are cut down, they release the carbon they store into the atmosphere. Tropical forests are huge stores of carbon.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based President Jimmy Carter to triple coal production by the G7 countries until the year 2000. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.