Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Planet Labs The resulting paper , recently published in Science, blames man-made global warming for the collapse. For instance, an extreme melting event in 2012 led to the loss of 610 gigatons of ice, enough to fill Lake Eerie, and then some.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. Hintze, founder and co-CEO of the global asset management fund CQS , has given £4.7

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Even within a relatively pristine tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico, researchers in 2018 found that between 1976 and 2012, the biomass of its insect species had fallen between 10- and 60-fold.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

global warming pathway. The company - which has been a net zero business since 2012 thanks to its investments in offsetting, alongside a reduction in its carbon emissions intensity of 61 per cent since 2010 - said it would now cut all of its own carbon emissions to zero by 2030 without the use of offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Singer was a speaker at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67 million from Exxon, Koch and the Scaife Family Foundations. In 2014 DeSmog revealed that Singer received $5,000 a month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute , which has taken donations from oil interests including ExxonMobil and the Koch family.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The world was going to end in 2012, based on a popular misreading of the Mayan calendar — and then it didn’t. In 2018, after the release of a landmark United Nations report on the overheating planet, Greta Thunberg began saying that humanity only had “ 12 years ” to halt the destruction of global warming.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Sustainable Clothing Action Plan 2020 Commitment (SCAP) launched in 2012 with a goal of encouraging leading fashion brands, retailers, textile recycling companies, and governments, among other stakeholders, to work together to reduce the environmental impact of clothing in the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2023

The oldest and thickest of it has declined by 95 percent during three decades of global warming. Bluefin tuna had never been recorded off the eastern shore of Greenland prior to 2012, but have been recorded every year since. “We Arctic sea ice, which is responsible for maintaining cool polar temperatures, is dwindling rapidly.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

For lower-stress, community-driven processes, building trust in government officials and starting discussions early, before the next flood takes place, are essential enablers (de Vries and Fraser 2012). Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2012, Truss co-authored the book Britannia Unchained , which took a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology” and argued for a low-tax, deregulated economy. In 2019 as trade secretary, Truss hired the IEA’s head of communications as her media advisor.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Between 2012 and 2017, food systems were responsible for about 16 billion tons of CO2 each year. At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100.

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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. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s not a record, he said, noting that considerably more carbon was emitted in 2011 and 2012, when very large fires raged across Australia’s northern territory and out west. By any measure, 400 million tons is a significant chunk of heat-trapping gases that will get mixed into the atmosphere, fueling more global warming.

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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 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

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

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TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Despite a rebound from a record low in 2012, the extent of Arctic sea ice is generally trending downwards, often dramatically. Many scientists and conservationists fear that there may be far fewer polar bears in even that single-decade time frame, thanks chiefly to the effects of climate change.

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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 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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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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Fairsnape

JUNE 8, 2019

Over the last thirty years or so, in what we could call our eco era, with a focus on reducing impact and taking actions not to compromise tomorrows generation, we have seen increases in C02 and global warming. We have not moved the needle; instead, we have watched the needle move in the wrong direction.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Jack Stilgoe, a sociologist at University College London, says he joined the Spice project in 2012 to help the scientists make sense of what had gone wrong. What is clear is that most of the research has been done by a very small, exclusive group of people,” Stilgoe says. They also have much higher perceptions of the related risks.

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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. Photo: Aminata Nimaga, red. Energy is the engine of development – it brings life transforming benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Abuleif is Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at COP26, a position he has held since 2012. The ongoing failure of countries to say the ‘F-word’ — to name oil, gas, and coal as the primary drivers of global warming and to commit to immediately halting new fossil fuel production and phasing out fossil fuels — is inexcusable.

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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. We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the social media posts, published between 2010 and 2012, Trevelyan insisted global warming was not happening and branded global warming campaigners as "doom-mongers" and "fanatics".

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Extreme weather events become more frequent As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned, global warming escalates weather disasters. disasters included Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and the Missouri tornadoes of 2011. In 2012, Lonesome George, the last Pinta tortoise , died at over 100 years old. Notable U.S.

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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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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Chasing Ice, 2012 This award-winning film pulls together years of time-lapse photography to document the planet’s rapidly melting glaciers.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. Special Report - Global Warming of 1.5°C

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Sustainable funerals do not: Release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. However, since signing the Oslo-Paris (OSPAR) agreement, the UK government halved crematoria’s mercury emissions by 2012. Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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