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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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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

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I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. Jacobson’s Early Story. Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Collaboration with Students.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

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A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. Many companies were aware of the potential effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures on climate. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.

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

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Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

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Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).