Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A spokesperson said the company had a “strict zero deforestation policy” as well as “strong commitments to action on climate change”. Climate Denial. IMIL has been a prominent source of climate misinformation in Brazil, allowing it to downplay the vital role the Amazon plays as a carbon sink regulating the Earth’s climate.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

They also confirmed that rising temperatures — driven by human consumption of fossil fuels — were partly to blame. In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Celsius (2.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. Gigatonnes (Gt) last year - 62 per cent higher than at the start of UN climate change negotiations in 1990.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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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. Mitigating the impacts of climate change is essential. Corporations worldwide would be negatively impacted if we don’t do this and can prosper if we do.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

A charity with ties to senior Conservative MPs has appointed a professor who said protecting the environment was an “innovation of the Devil” and has dismissed the science of human-caused climate change. Furfari and Climate Denial. There is currently strong support among the British public for action on climate change.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Responding to climate change is no longer a constraint on economic growth,” Suga said. Today, Japan mainly relies on coal and fossil fuels to power its industries. After a 2011 nuclear power accident in Fukushima, the Japanese public has remained opposed to nuclear energy. Via The Guardian Image via Ryo Yoshitake.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He proposed establishing a world alliance for food security targeted at ending hunger and building a more sustainable food system to combat climate change, and demanded that richer nations deliver on their collective commitment to provide $100bn in climate finance a year to developing nations. global warming goal out of reach.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credit: Alex DROP ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) “It was an opportunity for [the UAE] to get more involved in climate change diplomacy, to be able to become a more significant player,” said Rice University Professor Gokçe Günel, who worked for the Masdar renewables company, in Masdar City, in 2010 to create policy proposals around carbon capture and storage.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The largest oil spill in American history highlights the soulless self interest of the fossil fuel industry. was hit by a series of tornadoes and hurricanes in 2011 including Sandy. We have been warned over and over again yet we are not doing anywhere near enough to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2005 she became Germany's first female chancellor and in 2011 she launched an energy transition policy called energiewend which is moving the country away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy towards renewable sources of energy. Global warming is real. Her first portfolio was that of minister of the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. 2022 report into think tanks. Neither the Conservative Party nor the government offered a comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

A DeSmog analysis has found climate denial and a hostility to net zero to be a common feature among many of the individuals speaking at the three-day summit. They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Boris Johnson’s reshuffle has dominated the news this week – but what does it mean for government policy on climate change? As might be expected, several cabinet ministers were involved in campaigning for Brexit, whose crossover with climate science denial and environmental deregulation DeSmog has reported on extensively.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. Even if we stopped burning oil and gas tomorrow, some degree of planetary warming is baked in. Here they are.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” 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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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. At the same time, the reality of climate change had and has continued to become all the more clear.

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