DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government on Monday announced that it plans on awarding hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, beginning this autumn, with Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps recently declaring that he wants to “max out” the UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. They also incorporated direct boat-based measurements of methane concentrations around offshore gas platforms in the North Sea collected in summer 2017, documented in a study also led by the authors.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke Energy is the latest major utility to commit to a carbon-free future, with a plan to cut its emissions in half by 2030 and eliminate them completely by midcentury. utility, due to the company’s size. Even so, other utilities have been moving toward long-range carbon reduction goals in anticipation of regulatory action. markets.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2024

The scientists developed a model that simulates storm damages to the Texas power grid and studied 10,000 realisations of potential damages for each of seven historical tropical cyclones, including the major hurricanes Harvey (2017) and Ike (2008). Their approach allowed them to reproduce observed supply failures.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. The GWPF updated its register later the next day.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The billboard read: “I still believe in global warming. In 2017, in a campaign with a broader potential effect, the Heartland Institute mailed unsolicited packets of climate denial propaganda, including a booklet entitled “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” to up to 200,000 public school teachers across the country.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction. It concludes that “the theory supporting global warming has taken a significant blow”.

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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. Lea has worked for the South Thanet MP since at least February 2017, according to available records.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Protestors at the Preston New Road site in 2017. The baseline monitoring was carried out by The University of Manchester as part of a British Geological Survey-led environmental monitoring project and supported by the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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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. The Express and the Daily Mail both quoted the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as saying: “We simply do not accept these figures.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Marshall also owns UnHerd, a publication founded in 2017 that claims to give a platform to marginalised views. UnHerd has published multiple articles and videos critical of climate action, including an interview in July with Bjorn Lomborg about “ how global warming will save lives ”. Tice has recently been hired by GB News.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss referenced a Daily Express article earlier today by Patrick Minford, a free market economist who is best known for his dubious 2017 claim that a no-deal Brexit would boost the UK economy by £135 billion per year.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

This project embraced natural climate solutions (NCS), which a 2017 paper by Griscom et al. found offered up to a third of the cost-effective emissions mitigation required to keep global warming below 2 ° C, but typically received about 3% of international climate finance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It follows the issuance of Barclays' first ever green bond in 2017, which was the first from a UK bank earmarked for funding domestic residential mortgage assets, and last year the bank pledged to increase its green bonds commitment to £4bn over time, as well as pledging to deliver £100bn green financing by 2030.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

However, it's not just a hotspot for newlyweds or keen surfers either, the popular travel destination has also set its sights on saving the world, via its advances with renewable energy. The small country has purportedly run for a whopping 300 days solely on a mixture of hydro, geothermal, wind, biomass and solar energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

This week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has committed to awarding hundreds more licences for North Sea oil and gas exploration, with Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps saying that he wants to “max out” the UK’s North Sea reserves. Consumer Choice Center was founded in 2017 by the libertarian advocacy group Students for Liberty.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

But look for future updates and essays on this topic, such as the one digitally penned recently by Jarami Bond (named in 2017). 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.

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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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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

The world still gets about 80% of its energy from fossil fuels today which generate the lions share of emissions. According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S. It is important to acknowledge where most of the current emissions come from.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Published today in the journal Nature Communications , the study sets out a fresh framework for corporate carbon performance management, which is aimed at better aligning companies with the Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming to 1.5C or 'well below' 2C.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

By Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. Commercial building emissions were also higher. metric tons.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. . We can't let these major oil companies that are spending most of their capex on oil and gas run a bunch of advertising pretending they're renewable energy companies. It is a big business.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has urged the oil and gas sector to step up efforts to tackle methane emissions as it gears up for a recovery that could see production return to pre-pandemic levels. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

Since 2017, cities and states have filed around 20 lawsuits against fossil fuel companies based on state laws that prohibit deceptive advertising, seeking money to adapt to the effects of climate change. It’s hard to draw a direct line between global warming and wildfires.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, it is more scarce, expensive and energy intensive than other forms of hydrogen. As a result, ‘grey’ fossil-based hydrogen (made with natural gas or coal) makes up 96 percent of existing supplies globally. As DeSmog has reported, Policy Exchange received $30,000 from oil corporation ExxonMobil in 2017.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And, in the coming days, a letter will be circulated among corporate networks and trade associations - such as the American Sustainable Business Council and the Ceres Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy - seeking support for the campaign, according to the Clean Creatives group. "PR

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

NZW is the political arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, which published a paper last month claiming there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”. In 2017, Ryan praised the Conservative Party for cutting carbon emissions. Discretion is Key’.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2019

The 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons were the worst two on record in British Columbia. The 2017 record-breaking B.C. This is expected to climb to 65% if global warming reaches 2C. The post The link between extreme weather and climate change appeared first on Clean Energy Canada.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And we are able to do that because this country is driving a revolution in renewable energy. Parts of the North and the North East in particular are showing the lead in renewable energy.". The 520MW Kilroot coal-fired power station in County Antrim is not covered by the phase out, as energy policy is devolved in Northern Ireland.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute to provide climate and energy research updates. Since 1900, sea levels have increased 8 inches on average globally, and by 2100, sea levels will likely rise between 1 and 4 feet (Sweet et al. Communities around the U.S.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. Yieldcos focus on returning cash flows generated from renewable energy assets to shareholders as dividends. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. Yieldcos focus on returning cash flows generated from renewable energy assets to shareholders as dividends. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. Yieldcos focus on returning cash flows generated from renewable energy assets to shareholders as dividends. That’s a grim and undisputable fact.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Climate Action 100+ - which is backed by more than 500 global investors - said it was writing to 161 CEOs and chairs of the board at "focus companies" it has identified as collectively responsible for up to 80 per cent of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions, urging them all to set out net zero-aligned business plans as soon as possible.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. 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.

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