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GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm 

DeSmogBlog

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence.

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IEA Think Tank Contributes to Climate Science Denial Documentary

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The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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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. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. However, it is conceivable to care for the future generation because generations do over-lap.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

GreenBiz

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. A 5–4 court decision went in favor of Goodyear on procedural grounds (i.e.,

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References to Climate in the 2019 Canadian Federal Leaders Debate

Green Market Oracle

We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. We need the kind of leadership that lifts people up, that doesn’t make people feel as if politics is rather disgusting and they’d rather not look at it. No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. Thank you. It was better.