DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Jacobson’s Early Story. He agreed and recruited research scientist Mark Delucchi of UC Davis to help (Delucchi has been a regular co-author of many of Jacobson’s studies).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. The GWPF was set up by the late Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor of the exchequer, in 2009, and has consistently spread climate science denial. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In fact they have prominently opposed such action, regularly providing space for climate scepticism and running frontpage stories that challenged the existence of global warming and its relationship to human activity. Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. The Daily Express.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The report, which was funded by the Zurich Flood Insurance Alliance, looked at the level of climate finance so far committed by 23 developed nations which signed up to the $100bn a year goal in 2009. It concluded the UK was one of 20 countries which are still not paying their 'fair share' towards the collective target.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Founded in 2009, the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering is New York City’s longest running cleantech startup incubator. Urban Future Lab.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. That thirsty atmosphere has been behind most of the studies that have found a clear link between global warming and persistent droughts.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For her work at Sunrun, Jurich was named on Fortune Magazine’s list of top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in December 2009, and, with her co-founder Edward Fenster, Jurich earned a 2010 Ernst & Yung Entrepreneurs of the year. Currently, Jurich serves on the Sierra Club Foundation Board of Directors.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. The campaign paid off: In 2009 IRENA established its headquarters in Masdar City.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The threat of scaling up the use of commodities like soy or palm oil with high risk of deforestation is increasing as greater political emphasis is placed on the supposed benefits of “SAF”. In addition, aviation also produces non-CO 2 emissions such as contrails which are estimated to cause a greater global warming effect than aviation CO 2.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 What happens at COP26? The U.S. ,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

“We need strong political leadership on climate change and filling the government with climate sceptics is the antithesis to this.” The GWPF has been the leading force opposing environmental action in the UK since former Chancellor and Conservative peer Nigel Lawson set up the group in 2009. Arch Critic of Climate Policies.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Hintze, an Australian hedge fund manager who is set to join the House of Lords, is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF, founded by former chancellor Lord Lawson in 2009, is working with MPs to campaign against net zero.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The 'domino effect' of net zero pledges from world leaders in recent months could prove hugely impactful on global warming trajectories, a new analysis suggests, but is its optimistic outlook justified? Back then, CAT's estimate for global average temperature rise by 2100 was 3.5C. It is hugely encouraging news.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Russian gas exports aren’t only fundamental sources of revenue for Putin’s imperialism , they also have served as political tools, long strengthening Moscow’s influence over EU member states and other European countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Republic. . “Putin has deliberately weaponized fossil gas.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. business and political history. and global politics.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

McKinley (R-WV) who in 2016 — just a year after the Paris Agreement was negotiated at COP21 to limit global warming to 2°C (3.6°F) In 2009, Sen. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) in Copenhagen in 2009. Meanwhile, at least two of the five have expressed doubt about climate science in the past. This includes David B.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

On the website of CAR26 the group questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests that teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. In 2009 she told the Daily Express : “There is no climate change, hasn’t anybody looked out of their window recently?”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After a green stimulus package was passed in 2009, Democrats backpedaled. Nonetheless, Democrats showed renewed interest in global warming in 2014 with Democratic Senators launching a climate action task force. History will record that in 2019, climate change came of age in American political discourse.

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