DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Experts have dubbed it the “latest tactic” from the “same old climate change deniers”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin. RT and Climate Denial. This claim is being amplified by mainstream conservative newspapers.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Campaigners said that they were “saddened” by the recent appointments to the GWPF, an organisation founded by climate science denier and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Nigel Lawson in 2009 to combat what it described as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to address climate change. False Debate’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. One in four U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. Climate change is increasing the risk of precisely the kind of intense downpours that triggered these floods, so that once-freak weather events now happen far more regularly. And then again in 2015. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels. Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay told DeSmog: “Nigel Lawson is the climate denier-in-chief. GWPF Record.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

He was also formerly an adviser to Consumer Choice Center – a US-based pressure group with links to the Koch fossil fuel empire that has come under fire for advocating against green reforms in the EU without being registered as a lobbying firm. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” I urge Mr. Koonin to do the same.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy. It recently faced a backlash from local members after it came out in support of onshore wind and solar subsidies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2009, Canadian federal and provincial governments have supplied at least $3 billion in public funding, including grants and loans, to support CCS efforts, according to Stockman. Of the Canadian subsidies that Oil Change International has tracked over the past 14 years, many were for tar sands projects. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

“We have failed to understand in the past that we can’t have tackling climate change as a side issue. Every strategy and every plan from every government must be consistent with tackling climate change.”. It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. That is very worrisome.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cancelled a critically important meeting and will instead hold it virtually. per cent drop in global GDP and a 1.2

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. "It In the U.S., Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This is despite new polling showing that 57 percent of 2019 Conservative voters think that Sunak hasn’t gone far enough to tackle climate change, while only 9 percent think he has gone too far. The study also found that burning fossil fuels made heatwaves in China 50 times more likely.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing criticism over her support for new fossil fuel projects , including fracking , and plans to block solar farms and scrap environmental protections. Lord Wei is scheduled to speak on a panel called “Are Fossil Fuels Regaining Their Grounds? BEIS Back-and-Forth.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Ed Miliband last night promised that a Labour government would provide long-term certainty to businesses through the delivery of an ambitious new climate policy framework, as he hailed the net zero transition as "not just the ethical choice; it is the economic choice as well". Now, of course, fossil fuels are not the answer.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 28, 2020

This modern day plague has also dealt a significant blow to the fossil fuel industry and thousands of extraction and production companies are expected to become insolvent due to the oil crash of 2020. Any decrement in fossil fuel infrastructure increases the likelihood that we can keep temperatures below critical thresholds.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. A carbon tax followed the next year, helping wind become cost-competitive with fossil fuels.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The earth system scientists who became part of the commission’s Anthropocene Working Group, created in 2009, found themselves at the center of a contentious debate as the world looked to them for a definitive answer: Are we living in the Anthropocene? degrees Celsius) and counting. Not all scholars love the term, though.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

4: Fossil Fuel Industry’s Racist Past. Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Legacy of White Supremacy,” was another critical story, written by Kendra Pierre-Louis and published in March. In it, DeSmog looked back on the history of the oil industry’s links to white supremacy. 6: Protecting Pipelines.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 15, 2020

Wind is key to our energy mix because it reduces fossil fuel use which combats climate change and contributes to cleaner air. Turbine equipment prices having fallen dramatically driving down the average installed cost of wind projects in 2018 by 40 percent compared to the peak in 2009 and 2010. generation capacity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Over 90 percent of Ontario’s electricity comes from non-fossil fuel sources, mostly nuclear and hydroelectricity. Aliénor Rougeot, a climate justice advocate and climate and energy program manager with Environmental Defence, told DeSmog she is “frustrated that our public transit is taken over by big polluters making record profits.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s , when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2C would "push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation had experienced". That story reveals an essential truth about climate change itself.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

A recent Pew Research Center poll found overwhelming bipartisan support for accelerating the transition to a renewable energy economy, with 79 percent of Americans from across the political spectrum saying the government should prioritize the development of wind and solar power over fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in what they say will be Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” since 2009. We agree that society needs to take urgent action on climate change.

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