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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference. As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. 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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Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying

Andrew Winston

Business needs to, in the words of Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp , “unleash the most powerful tool they have to fight climate change: their political influence.”. I want to offer some thoughts on the context and where the policy discussion could, or should, go. This isn’t the first attempt.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

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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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss. Total CO 2 from industrialized humans in the past 263 years: 1,480 billion tons.”

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

They use their tremendous wealth to buy politicians and political outcomes. extreme weather killed more than 2,000 people in 2014. Many eco-systems will be lost and sea ice will disappear as will glaciers. This could contribute to a sea-level rise of up to 10 meters. In the U.S. million people in 2015.

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A Green Christmas Carol

Green Market Oracle

They use their tremendous wealth to buy politicians and political outcomes. extreme weather killed more than 2,000 people in 2014. Many eco-systems will be lost and sea ice will disappear as will glaciers. This could contribute to a sea-level rise of up to 10 meters. In the U.S. million people in 2015.