DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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.” Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

John Constable, energy editor at the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), will speak to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee on Tuesday morning as part of its inquiry, which also looks at the role of the energy regulator Ofgem in the transition to net zero. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

None of these articles provide evidence for the claims, which rely on an unsubstantiated remark from 2014 by the then NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, that Russia had “actively engaged” with environmental groups opposing shale gas “to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas”.

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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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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’s personal views on climate change are unclear.

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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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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”). Springer, 2014. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary For Policy Makers.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees or even 2 degrees Celsius.”. degree C rise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. In 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

He argued that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was “trivial”. 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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Indeed, the latest update to the report has revised the global warming potential of SF 6 upwards by over 7% from the previous 100-year impact of 23,500 to 25,200, i.e. that 1kg of SF 6 has the same global warming impact over a century as 25,200kg of CO 2.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

By now, most people have heard about polar ice melting due to global warming. “The increase up to 2014 was a surprise, considering the ice loss in the Arctic, and the rapid drop in 2016 added to the long list of questions about Antarctic sea ice. Recent research has shed light on changes in sea ice.

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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

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The New Allies The list of NZSG allies released today includes individuals associated with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group, which has extensive ties with the parliamentary caucus. Rees-Mogg has a long record of opposing climate action.

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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. according to a 2014 study. percent and 75 percent.,

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

degrees is still a significant increment of additional global warming beyond what we’ve already experienced. The last time the IPCC came out with one of these assessments, in 2013 and 2014, experts were careful not to necessarily connect a big wildfire or a major drought to rising temperatures.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Scott Taylor, the lead author of the 2014 study on Chickadees had this to say: “The rapidity with which these changes are happening is a big deal. Mostly, it means that the Chickadee you see in your home state isn’t the one you are used to. Chickadees are adaptable, but many bird species aren’t.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

National Geographic says yes by Medilyn Manibo, 21 July 2014 ii Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 iii Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 iv What is the environmental impact of deforestation for paper production? And how can we rebalance our friendship with trees?)

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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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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. In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record. This year will also be remembered for the month of July which is the hottest month ever recorded.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2019

Another Canadian study , looking at the extreme flooding in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in 2014, found that climate change may have played a role in the significant increase in rainfall. This is expected to climb to 65% if global warming reaches 2C.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The report, published this morning, argues the government's ongoing support of overseas fossil fuel infrastructure not only fuels environmental degradation and global warming, but is a huge missed opportunity to generate tens of thousands of UK jobs as part of a 'green recovery' from the coronavirus crisis.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2022

With the pressure on to save ourselves from global warming, we need more efficient solar panels like yesterday. In 2014, a group of researchers at the University of Cambridge started trying to convert blue and green light waves into red ones so that solar panels could harness more power.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

But in 2014, the company opted out of building the pipeline because they said it wasn’t feasible given permafrost conditions. Children use water provided by Teck Cominco in May 2014 after the company declined to build Kivalina a pipeline to carry the Red Dog Mine’s wastewater to sea. center, and his family in May 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Neil Record , chair of the IEA, is also chair of the GWPF’s campaign wing Net Zero Watch. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s “emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950.” and that still believing in it was “more than a little nutty.”

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So even if it was or is colder in some places, that does not detract from the veracity of global warming. percent chance that 2019 will be one of the five warmest years on record (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings are as follows: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014).

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Under the EU's Non-financial Reporting Directive, large European companies have since 2014 already been required to publish regular reports on the social and environmental impacts of their business activities.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

Since the IPCC’s last report on climate change mitigation in 2014, the world has seen the renewable energy industry surge and some of the fossil fuel industry’s favored concepts, like carbon capture and sequestration, flounder. To limit warming to 1.5 C, global coal use must drop 95 percent by 2050, the IPCC said.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Blob — the moniker coined by Washington state climatologist Nick Bond during the 2015 heat wave — describes the vast expanse of unusually warm water that occurred in the Pacific Ocean from 2014 to 2016. It adversely impacted coral reefs, causing global bleaching and diminished coastal fisheries’ yields throughout the Pacific.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Lord Frost is currently a senior fellow at Policy Exchange, having also recently become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group. Downer was appointed as the High Commissioner to the UK in 2014 by Tony Abbott , who also recently joined the board of the GWPF.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) While not yet in line with what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C, this is still a big step for countries that rely heavily on coal power.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Its chairman, former UKIP donor Andrew Perloff, has blamed rising inflation on climate policies, and defended those who question whether “global warming is happening”. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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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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