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

Renewable Energy World

I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward. Jacobson didn’t stop there. Congress between 2015 and 2019.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. Deploying carbon capture is a massive endeavor and we have limited time. And we’re on the clock. Lindgren, K., Obersteiner, M., &

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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 The following year, in 2010, the climate summit took place in Cancún, Mexico. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

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). Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

She took over her post at the UNFCC in 2010 after the disappointing failure of COP15 in Copenhagen. The climate-induced environmental threats they face include sea-level rise and shifts in the ranges of important species of food bearing plants. Figueres tenure at the UNFCCC saw her achieve great things.