DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer. Singer, an American atmospheric physicist who died in 2020, argued that climate change was natural and not increased by human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

°C global warming limit, cut the water footprint of clothing products, and deliver a UK-wide circular textiles roadmap. From its launch in 2012 until 2019, SCAP had already exeeded its 2020 deadline targets, with members achieving a near 16 per cent reduction in CO2 per tonne of garments, and a 19.5

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

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. anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012). anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere which is warming the globe and driving climate change. Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). billion tons of CO2e in 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). billion tons of CO2e were dumped into the atmosphere in 2018 and coal power spewed a record breaking 10 billion tons of carbon into the air in 2019.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Global warming, an existential crisis becoming all too real like COVID-19, will only exacerbate these inequalities, unless we act now. Health Effects of Pollution Pollution and global warming have very real health effects from heat stroke to asthma to premature death caused by cancer-causing chemicals.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. Let Them Eat Carbon’. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It requires upfront investment to build and maintain the technology required to produce clean hydrogen, such as electrolyser systems, pipeline modifications, and carbon-capture capabilities. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

New Jersey National Guard assisted displaced residents in Hoboken in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. As early as 1959, for example, physicist Edward Teller spoke about global warming that could melt the ice caps and submerge coastal cities at an oil industry symposium organized by API. Credit: U.S.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 8, 2019

This diverse group make the point that buildings and construction account for approximately 40% of carbon dioxide emissions, with more action done to tackle the’ most pressing issue of our time’ Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action among our clients and supply chains.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

The most obvious climatic impact of the fires is that they’re spewing millions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to a vicious feedback loop of heat and flame. In addition to carbon pollution, the fires are producing, well, regular air pollution.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

This event averaged 30 to 60 millimeters (mm) per year (Cronin 2012, Golledge 2014), some 10 to 20 times faster than current rates. As such, a meltwater pulse from the past does not provide a perfect analog for what rates may occur with extended global warming during this century and hundreds of years to come. mm per year.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012. To be sure, Saudi Arabia’s plans to increase oil production are well-known, and its climate plan relies heavily on speculative carbon capture technologies at some distant date in the future. But he got his start working at Aramco in the 1990s.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

Coyne himself acknowledges climate change is real and has argued frequently over the years that the most efficient way to address it is through a national price on carbon emissions. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures.” In a nutshell, no.”

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

It is, however, also very dependent on the burning on fossil fuels, which contributes to global warming and carbon emissions. Little Sun was founded in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen. Energy is the engine of development – it brings life transforming benefits. Photo: Maddalena Valeri, red.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. In 2012, for instance, a British project to reflect the sun with water droplets was canceled due to conflict-of-interest concerns over patents.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Further, the United Nations former secretary-general Ban Ki-moon endorsed the concept of planetary boundaries on 16 March 2012. Ocean: increasing amounts of CO 2 ultimately dissolve in the oceans and forms carbonic acid by altering the ocean chemistry. The increased acidity reduces the number of available carbonate ions.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

Unilever, PepsiCo, General Mills, Nestlé, Danone and others are leading on climate with ambitious plans around regenerative agriculture, emissions reductions and carbon labeling. The most common solution is to answer the annual surveys from CDP, the nonprofit formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. . It’s been sobering.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. He then added in the energy outputs from New York’s existing and potential WWS supplies.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Yet as early as 1883, scientists were beginning to connect burning of coal with a warming climate. In an article published in 1912 , the discussion of greenhouse gasses and their effects on the environment could be mistaken for something from 2012. Yet for the most part, life continued as normal until 1972.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The numbers don’t matter as much as what they are supposed to convey — that, with our nuclear weapons and carbon dioxide emissions and global pandemics and our increasingly dumb internet full of misinformation , the world is perilously close to catastrophe. over the past several decades. The Doomsday Clock has a similar problem.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." Climate change risk assessments were subsequently published in 2012 and 2017 with the third in January 2022 setting out 61 risks to infrastructure, human health, nature, and vital systems such as food, transport system and opportunities.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Sustainable funerals do not: Release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, accounting for around 0.02 percent of world carbon dioxide emissions. Other harmful pollutants. But is burial any better?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2012, a group of farmers who saw the payments as a legal loophole allowing the Pork Board to cover NPPC’s lobbying expenses joined with the Humane Society to sue the USDA. The United Nations Environmental Programme’s assessment found that methane has accounted for more than 30 percent of global warming in the modern era.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

He recruited Greg Nugent and Godric Smith, who led the hugely successful marketing and communications effort for the 2012 Games, and they advised that government needed to deliver a full spectrum effort with central control similar to that which helped deliver the London Olympics. But such an effort has not materialised.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

She compares them to the academically credentialed climate deniers who once got equal attention in the news despite volumes of data about the effects of global warming. Forests store carbon. Despite these unprecedented investments, progress has been slow across the West: Since 2012, only about 1.8

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers, the second lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind only September 2012. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. A summary from the NSIDC shows how bad the situation was in autumn 2020. Lot’s of Methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

aligned pathway this decade, given the greenhouse gas is far more potent than carbon dioxide. It is one of the most potent greenhouse gas there is, it amounts half the warming we are experiencing today - [that's] just methane.". of global warming to date. The real work begins now," she said. alive.".

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Extreme weather events have dominated headlines in the last decade and this was especially true in 2012 , 2013 and 2015. Despite repeated warnings our emissions keep rising and our carbon budget is dwindling. In 2019 hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas and huge swaths of the world were ravaged by wildfires.

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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). Anne-Marie Trevelyan – Transport Secretary.

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