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Italian Oil Giant Eni Knew About Climate Change More Than 50 Years Ago, Report Reveals

DeSmogBlog

In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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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. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959.

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

DeSmogBlog

Secretary, given the increased use of [fossil fuels], has increased over the last century by an average of 10 percent worldwide; around the year 2000 this increase could reach 25 percent, with ‘catastrophic’ consequences on climate.” “ [C]arbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a recent report by the U.N. ‘Friend Methane!

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Exxon Could Have Helped Stop Climate Change 30 Years Ago, ‘Proprietary’ Docs Show

DeSmogBlog

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. The surge in capital spending mitigates the impact on the economy after the year 2000,” Imperial learned. .

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New research method reveals significant reduction in carbon footprint of British pig farms

Envirotec Magazine

for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2% The study also found that such supplements in animal feed helped lower levels of phosphorous in run-off from pig manure by more than 20%, reducing the contribution of pig systems to freshwater pollution. for Terrestrial Acidification Potential; 22.5%

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How the world's growing water crisis is endangering $300bn of business value

Business Green

Taking action to deal with water shortages and pollution will cost $55bn, just a fraction of the cost of failing to act, CDP estimates. More broadly, the climate crisis threatens to dangerously exacerbate this already precarious situation, with projections indicating that if global warming exceeds 1.5C Indeed, that just 4.4

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Volcanoes May Be Slowing Down Climate Change

TIME Ecocentric

Small volcanic eruptions might be part of the reason why the pace of global warming hasn’t kept up with previous predictions, a new study published in Nature Nature Geoscience suggests. This so-called ‘hiatus’ puzzled researchers around the globe have been working to understand this phenomenon.