E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They not only help shape the government’s economic policies, they also construct narratives to legitimise the environmental destruction occurring in Brazil’s main biomes – mainly in the Amazon,” Carlos Milani, a professor of international relations at Rio de Janeiro State University, told DeSmog. Climate Denial.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fundamentally, to avoid putting a molecule of CO 2 into the air from the global energy system — for example switching from fossil fuels to wind or solar — is far easier than getting that molecule back out. C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018).

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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? 5 Governments like to say that their policies are informed by “the science”; but in this case, as in many others, scientists are at loggerheads with each other. Default Firewood.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions are not projected to peak by 2030, it adds, let alone by 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.

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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. He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels. The argument is that blending these fuels with fossil fuels would thereby reduce emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

Samuele Furfari , a former EU energy advisor, this month joined the “academic advisory council” of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s main climate science denial group, which has ties to several of the politicians who ran to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Fred Singer.

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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. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Christine Albano, an ecohydrologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, studies evaporative demand and how it might change under global warming. “A

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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.”. Source: Energy Information Administration.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The President-elect stressed that his premiership would mark a break with the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro, who oversaw a major increase in Amazon deforestation and was publicly critical of the UN climate negotiations. 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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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. The UK’s net zero policies have already faced criticism for failing to keep pace with the required speed of 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. It is threatening.So

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The gathering comes as Rishi Sunak’s government – which is already off track to meet the UK’s climate commitments – pursues new fossil fuel extraction, and prominent figures in the right-wing media continue to cast doubt over net zero policy. The group received more than £6.3 million ($7.9 Fred Singer , and received over £4.9

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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? In October 2019, ahead of the general election, Truss received a £3,000 donation from Michael Hintze , an Australian hedge fund manager who has helped fund the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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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. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.

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