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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GreenBiz

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." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers."

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

percent in 2016, while UKIP won 16.9 Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”. Reform’s policy platform claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5

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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 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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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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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

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

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

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.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of 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

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. Meller Designs was referred to the VIP lane by Gove’s office.

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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. Theresa May’s own record on climate change has not gone uncriticised, however. .

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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. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

While Nitrogen Dioxide is primarily produced by cars(EPA USA, 2016), other pollutants like Carbon Dioxide were on the fall too, with reduced global air travel reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions in the US by 17% ( Zogopoulos , 2021). EPA USA, 2016. However, not all outcomes have been positive. Source:Rume, T. and Islam, S.,

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). UN Global Compact, Arlene Thompson. Jillian Lennartz (2016).

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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. billion last year. of materials cycled.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

By now, most people have heard about polar ice melting due to global warming. The drop in sea ice from 2015 to 2016 was staggering — 463,322 square miles, about twice the size of France. But the coming and going of the sea ice surrounding Antarctica still leaves scientists puzzled.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 17, 2019

This is the first time in the 140 years that we have monitored global temperatures that we have seen a global average reading of 62.13 July 2019 beat the record set in July 2016. Fahrenheit. Nine of the 10 hottest Julys have occurred since 2005—with the last five years ranking as the five hottest.

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Grist

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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. Consider the anthrax outbreak in remote Siberia in 2016. Ghost forests. A ghost forest near the Savannah River in Georgia.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 23, 2020

They don’t know the leak’s cause, but global warming probably isn’t to blame, since the Ross Sea has not yet warmed significantly. Divers first noticed the methane seep in 2011, but scientists didn’t start investigating until 2016, studying it in detail both onsite and in the laboratory.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 article for American Thinker , Singer wrote: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

global warming scenario. of global warming by the end of the century, a rise in average temperatures that would shoot far over the 'well-below' 2C upper limit goal of the Paris Agreement and which scientists believe would incur catastrophic climate impacts on the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Fysh additionally holds stakes in Bank of America and Citi, among the top four “fossil banks” globally, according to analysis by climate campaign group BankTrack. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Fysh additionally holds stakes in Bank of America and Citi, among the top four “fossil banks” globally, according to analysis by climate campaign group BankTrack. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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). Climate ‘Contrarian’. Bates told DeSmog that he was unable to publish the piece elsewhere through a peer-reviewed process as it was “rejected unilaterally”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The latest update confirms the Clean200 "handily outperformed" its peers in the MSCI ACWI global equity index by 47 per cent over the year running to the end of January 2021, and by almost 35 per cent since the rankings were first launched in July 2016, they said.

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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. As reported by the Weather Network , it is very likely that 2019 will end up being the second-warmest year on record behind 2016. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial (1850-1900) times and 0.2

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Government officials sometimes assert homeowners have little interest in retreat, but instances exist when far more homeowners have requested assistance relocating than the budget allows (Koslov 2016). 2016) The case for retreat. Global Environmental Change 51:67–73. Disasters 41:101–123.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a resolution that asked the bank to report whether and how it would align its lending with the Paris Agreement goal of maintaining global warming well below 2C. At the bank's annual meeting yesterday, 49.6

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