DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. million since September 2015. Total annual losses increased from £17,000 to over £150,000. In total, the group has earned £2.8

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s the first “Global Stocktake” of the progress nearly 200 countries have made since they adopted the Paris agreement in 2015. By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. The planet has gotten about 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. Gesture Politics’. Wilkinson is joining political economist Ruth Lea on Mackinlay’s team.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 The speaking bureau Speaker’s Spotlight described him at the time as “one of Canada’s most provocative and insightful commentators on political and economic issues.” Coyne was also a sought out public speaker.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Ever since the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, there has been much focus on tipping points. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Focus on tipping points distracting from seriousness of underlying linear trends.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee. This could lead to a false equivalence in coverage, he warned. “In

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Ever since the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, there has been much focus on tipping points. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Focus on tipping points distracting from seriousness of underlying linear trends.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA. degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C But political action will determine whether it actually does. The Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 countries in 2015. Whether Earth can stay within 1.5C

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. However, it is conceivable to care for the future generation because generations do over-lap.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But Campanale also noted that the Paris Agreement makes no mention of fossil fuels throught the accord, and he is therefore campaigning for a separate Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation treaty to manage a global phase out of coal, oil and gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

of global warming by 2100 at best. and upwards of 3C of warming. and upwards of 3C of warming. As evidenced by the breadth of temperature scenarios, the accuracy of predictions based on exceedingly complex modelling of national climatic, political, and economic factors should always be taken with a pinch of salt.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2019

2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 This article originally appeared on Ensia.In degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. We simply need to commit, think bigger and embrace what it can offer us. Policy-driven benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2015, Blackmon was hired by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to campaign against fracking regulations. In June, the BBC’s Today programme interviewed a supposedly impartial “energy consultant” Kathryn Porter, who had links to the gas sector and had cast doubt on human-made global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

We only work with organizations who support the Paris Climate Accord and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 We only work with organizations who support the Paris Climate Accord and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 None of these companies want government policy and carbon regulations.” “We

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a statement, the lawyers called out the “contradiction” between the measures Italy should be taking to reach its target for limiting global warming and their “inadequate implemented actions.” ” The lawsuit is “by no means symbolic”, according to the Giudizio Universale campaign website.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.”

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

Ever since governments at the 2015 Paris climate summit set 1.5'C C as the desired limit for global warming, scientists and journalists alike have regularly asked whether it is achievable. The open letter that Fridays for Future sent to political leaders in 2020 referred to the 1.5C target now is. Can we succeed?

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

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. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first. Jacobson’s Early Story. to 4 million deaths that occur worldwide, each year.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The 2025 phase out date was originally announced in 2015 and was followed by a wave of coal planrt closures as operators have struggled to turn a profit in the face of the government's carbon floor price. This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

The model also demonstrates how support for policy or technology adoption accelerates when learning leads to cost reductions, or dampen when political, legal, or cultural winds shift. Politics in modeling. a consequence of the “political calibration” that occurs between the realms of science and policy. Beckage, B., Lacasse, K.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

That more than doubles the size of the global market share enjoyed by wind and solar during the same period five years ago, with the two technologies having provided 4.6 per cent of global electricity just before the Paris Agreement was brokered in late 2015. per cent of global electricity, according to Ember. While an 8.3

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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. Extinction is a political choice.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

BNEF estimates last year's global EV sales helped avoid 1.5 However, despite this progress overall demand for oil was actually still a touch higher last year than it was in 2015. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing. per cent of total oil demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Foreign Secretary.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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