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Fossil Fuels are Increasing Emissions and Driving Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. We continue to burn fossil fuels at a prodigious rate.

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MPs Challenged to Cut Ties with Polluters

DeSmogBlog

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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UK Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Meets And Praises Climate Science Denier Reform Candidate

DeSmogBlog

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. He runs the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Fuel with anti-net zero Tory MP Craig Mackinlay. The party is polling around ten percent.

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Revealed: Oil and Gas Industry Links of Telegraph Energy and Climate Commentator

DeSmogBlog

The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August. Blackmon’s presence in the Telegraph is the latest example of fossil fuel lobbyists and critics of climate science afforded a mainstream media platform in the UK.

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A Guide to the Anti-Net Zero Forces in Westminster Politics

DeSmogBlog

Climate Science Denial Groups Global Warming Policy Foundation / Net Zero Watch The opaquely-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, is the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. It claims to have the support of 140 MPs and “key media”.

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The multi-trillion dollar shift: Is the green energy investment revolution finally on its way?

Business Green

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1.

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Analysis: New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Links to Climate Science Denial

DeSmogBlog

In 2011, shortly after her election as an MP, Truss – who once worked as a commercial manager for Shell – set up the Free Enterprise Group, which has been described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.