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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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Big Oil Clouded the Science on Extreme Weather. Now It Faces a Reckoning.

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One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. A report that AccuWeather produced minimizing the impact of global warming on extreme weather in 1994.

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

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One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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

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5 Major US Utilities That Haven’t Promised to Fully Decarbonize

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But instead of a long-term carbon commitment, NextEra pledged to reduce its carbon emissions rate 67 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. It remains to be seen if that reputation will suffer from being out of step with the sector on tackling carbon pollution. It generated 73.6 Now, you just have to stop burning carbon.".

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RBG left these 4 lessons for the climate fight

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The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 63 percent and 56 percent more pollution than they create. A 5–4 court decision went in favor of Goodyear on procedural grounds (i.e., In 2001’s Whitman v.

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References to Climate in the 2019 Canadian Federal Leaders Debate

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We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. No one remembers the Paul Martin plan in 2005. You have given a massive exemption to the country’s largest polluters, and your plan is already failing. We are committed to a real plan that’s going to take on the biggest polluters.