DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 29, 2021
These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Isle de Jean Charles sits about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, where sea-level rise and coastal erosion are intensified by oil and gas canals and climate change, and it took a major hit from Hurricane Ida. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived. “In
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DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. At the same time, fossil fuel companies have worked to insulate themselves from extreme weather.
Clean Energy Canada
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Canada has committed to reducing emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, up from a previous target of 30%. has committed to reducing emissions by 50% below 2005 levels by 2030, up from its previous commitment of 26% to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. For comparison, the U.S. CLIMATE FINANCE.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 22, 2021
In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org The end of Chapter 9 looks at the scenarios available for speeding the transition to renewables, including the retiring of fossil fuel plants.
Green Market Oracle
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Carbon removal is also a core feature of UN climate action plans (IPCC, 2005; IPCC, 2018; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], the Paris Climate Agreement, n.d.). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 9, 2024
“But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.
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