DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Back in 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”. In April, he warned of the “huge regulatory cost” of the UK’s net zero target, and the same month said that the UK needs to be “thinking about extracting every last cubic inch of gas from the North Sea”.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

org and is the coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice. Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. She also serves on the board of 350.org Environmental insults are compounding the climate crisis.

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