DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. 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.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5 The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. degrees C above the preindustrial average. degrees C, or 4.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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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. Meanwhile his peers are producing leading-edge research about climate change.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Indeed, the European Environment Agency (EEA) highlighted the issue when reporting that over 400,000 Europeans met their untimely demise in 2016 due to poor air quality. Interestingly, air pollution is also the main driver of climate change. EEA reports poor air quality caused premature deaths of 400,000 Europeans in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

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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 conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”. Backing Fracking.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The source for author Jordan Peterson’s recent claim that climate change cannot be modelled was a climate science denier who received money from a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies. million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? from 10% and, in 2016, the kingdom was on the UN’s list of ‘least developed countries’. 4400 crores* (5.6

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. The latter emits up to three times more global warming pollution than producing the same quantity of crude oil.

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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. The result of living in polluted neighborhoods means a higher level of exposure to pollutants and emission according to a 2016 study in Environment International.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. However, the Civitas report has been criticised as inaccurate by several prominent climate academics and journalists.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Nearly one in three directors of Australia’s largest banks have worked for firms operating in the oil, gas and mining industries, DeSmog research has revealed, prompting concerns about a “vested interest” on the banks’ boards that campaigners fear could delay action to address climate change. Fossil Finance.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Fresh analysis published yesterday compared 40-year climate projections for different regions around the world, detailing how UK summer temperatures, and extreme hot days, could warm up to 50 per cent faster than the average rate of global warming. or 2C above pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

What you may have missed: the unprecedented heat dome, which subsequently drifted eastward through the Prairies, was 150 times more likely because of human-caused climate change. For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. It’s now our lived reality.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Two teams, Ambersail-2 and AkzoNobel Ocean Racing, carried scientific equipment onboard to capture samples of microplastics as they raced, while a third boat, 11th Hour Racing Team, took measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2), sea temperature, PH levels and salinity – key indicators of climate change. degrees Celsius. Int-Veen, I.,

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

Shareholders at JP Morgan Chase have signalled a growing desire that the world's largest funder of fossil fuels curbs lending activities that exacerbate climate change. Fugere said that JP Morgan Chase's inaction in the face of the "staggering risks of climate change" was "noteworthy and unacceptable."

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

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”. . The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s main climate science denial group is “sliding further into obscurity”, academics have claimed, following its latest appointment of a “contrarian” professor. Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. a prominent theory for its sudden explosion has emerged: climate change.

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Grist

OCTOBER 28, 2019

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that climate change has brought us a ghoulish vocabulary. Scientists and journalists alike are talking about the effects of global warming in frightening terms. You’d be hard-pressed to find a creature more susceptible to global warming than corals. Ghost forests.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. EPA USA, 2016. Effects on Ecological Factors. However, not all outcomes have been positive. Source:Rume, T.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Mach and Miyuki Hino of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. 2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Nature Climate Change 6:691–695. 2016) The case for retreat.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Central bank publishes first ever climate risk assessment revealing non-gilt holdings aligned with whopping 3.5C global warming scenario. The report shows the Bank of England (BofE) has cut emissions from its own activities - which include printing banknotes, building and business travel - by a third since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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