Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. The plaintiffs said the erosion had been exacerbated by climate change. But the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin. RT and Climate Denial. This claim is being amplified by mainstream conservative newspapers.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The revelation comes as the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government’s independent advisory body on climate change, today stated that the UK is missing its climate targets on nearly every front. Rees-Mogg has a long record of opposing climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Research by Bloomberg in June, however, found that renewable energy is in fact cheaper than continuing to burn fossil fuels.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. percent of global yearly CO2 emissions at most.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 27, 2020

The industrial sector was responsible for 33 percent of global anthropogenic emissions in 2014, and industrial emissions are only projected to rise – direct industrial emissions rose 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. Limiting global warming to 2°C requires reaching net zero emissions by 2050-2070, but this is no small task.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

World Benchmarking Alliance warns that the global oil and gas industry is on track to smash through the carbon budgets that would prevent global average temperature increases spiralling above 1.5C. The world's chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C If we want to meet the IEA's 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

European Commission reportedly weighing up options for stronger disclosure rules governing climate, biodiversity loss and pandemic risks. It comes amid similar efforts from the UK's financial watchdogs aimed at beefing-up environmental risk reporting, meanwhile.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And if I didn’t write about climate change for a living, this latest report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) wouldn’t hit the same. It says that this century, global temperatures are on track to reach between 2.5 Now, imagine close to 3 degrees of warming. Look, I am not a numbers person.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate Barbara Freese Sat, 05/16/2020 – 14:20 Excerpted from ” Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change ” by Barbara Freese, published by the University of California Press.

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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. In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Celsius (2.2

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2021

It provides 100 percent renewable power to the City of Houston, and in 2015 it was the first power company in North America to receive certification from the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that its climate goals aligned with the two-degrees Celsius global warming limit.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. It’s yet another sign of how climate change is shrinking the Arctic. This article is taken from Bloomberg. For the original, click here. 26, 2019.

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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? The sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? pic.twitter.com/MeNhyYhnnd — Geoffrey Supran (@GeoffreySupran) October 21, 2019.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Climate Policy: Changes in policy may turn out to be too little, too late, or it may buy us the time we need to switch over to net zero emissions economies in time to spare the world exceptionally catastrophic climate change. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Mitigating the impacts of climate change is essential. Corporations worldwide would be negatively impacted if we don’t do this and can prosper if we do.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossil fuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. million to the party since 2014. million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone.

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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. In fact, it’s not the only tactic the NCBA has borrowed from Big Oil. The NCBA has also faced legal scrutiny over its use of Checkoff funds.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is entirely appropriate that big ticket efforts to reduce global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions are at the center of global climate efforts , however, there is also a need for small gestures. According to the IEA the fuel intensity of new commercial jet aircraft fell an average 1.3

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is entirely appropriate that big ticket efforts to reduce global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions are at the center of global climate efforts , however, there is also a need for small gestures. According to the IEA the fuel intensity of new commercial jet aircraft fell an average 1.3

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. To celebrate that anniversary and underscore what’s needed now, I’m spotlighting 15 women-led ventures at the heart of the climate-tech movement.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

But that ethos created an unintended outcome: An expanding body of research shows that the West’s overgrown forests are fueling unnaturally severe wildfires that can cause irreparable ecological damage and massive economic loss. God never made an ugly landscape,” he wrote in 1897.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Andrea Jenkyns MP, who recently joined the UK’s main climate science denial campaign group Net Zero Watch (NZW), will gain an OBE, in an honours list that includes anti-climate MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg , Michael Fabricant, and Priti Patel. Rees-Mogg – who is set to receive a knighthood – has a long record of opposing climate action.

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