Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 The study began in earnest in 2013, and the more extensive sample collection was done in 2017, when divers were sent down to chisel sponges off the undersea walls. degrees Celsius, or 2.7 They don’t like to be disturbed.) degrees C, according to many current estimates, compared to the 1.7

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2021

British American Tobacco (BAT) has committed to delivering net zero emissions by 2050 across its value chain and will bring its existing sustainability targets in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C The company also announced it had slashed its emissions by nearly 31 per cent in 2020, against a 2017 baseline.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). You can read more about the Global Warming Policy Foundation in its profile in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database. He was a Brexit minister from 2017 to 2018. Read profile.

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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 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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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2017, Foster created his second entrepreneurial venture in digital media, The Climate Reporter, a collection of international youth writing about climate change, global warming and environmental justice, See the original post here: Voting rights advocate Jerome Foster is raising youth climate awareness.

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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

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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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2022

The scientists used models to create an alternate reality: one in which the 2020 hurricane season played out in a world without global warming. Usually, these attribution studies have honed in on the biggest players — Hurricane Harvey in 2017, for instance. degrees Celsius (0.72 degrees Fahrenheit) lower with much less rain.

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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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Sunrun

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2 The bad news is that these are only two examples of disasters and blackouts in 2017; in total there were 3,526 power outages across our country.3 3 To understand just how big global warming plays a part in our lives… there were about 5 outages per year in the 1950s. We lead all developed nations in power outages and blackouts.4

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

The myth that most people imagine global warming as a distant concern “could be one explanation of why people tend to underestimate other people’s climate change perceptions,” van Valkengoed said. A large portion of the public has thought of global warming as near-at-hand for decades.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2021

The world’s largest mammals have been spotted on the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain several times since 2017. First, marine biologist Bruno Díaz spotted a blue whale in 2017, the first sighting of a blue whale in Galicia since the 1980s. Blue whales have started returning to the coast of Spain 40 years after they vacated.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Between 2012 and 2017, food systems were responsible for about 16 billion tons of CO2 each year. At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Protestors at the Preston New Road site in 2017. In terms of greenhouse warming potential, this is equivalent to 143 tonnes CO2 using the default 100-year time horizon conversion factor (GWP100), the annual electricity demand of 166 UK homes, or 142 London-New York flights.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” Branch also thinks the fact that this year’s campaign is so scaled back from the 2017 mailout means even Heartland itself recognizes this as a failing strategy.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In Germany, insect abundance within the country’s protected areas had fallen by more than 75 percent over the course of just 27 years, according to a 2017 study. Even insect populations well covered in protected areas have faced steady declines over the last few decades that have alarmed scientists.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2021

Instead of having to prove that climate change did affect a heat wave, Dessler explained, the burden of proof is now on any scientist to prove that global warming didn’t play a role. degrees Celsius) that the planet has already warmed since pre-industrial times. In a few studies, the results were inconclusive.)

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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 ”.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Indeed, the latest update to the report has revised the global warming potential of SF 6 upwards by over 7% from the previous 100-year impact of 23,500 to 25,200, i.e. that 1kg of SF 6 has the same global warming impact over a century as 25,200kg of CO 2. A reference value is 0.5%kg/year,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives. "As long as they continue to engage in polluter relations, these firms will be one of our greatest barriers to climate progress.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you remove aerosols from the air, you reduce the health impacts of pollution, saving thousands of people from lung and heart disease, but you might also make global warming worse. This creates a tricky paradox, which renowned climate scientist James Hansen has called a “Faustian bargain.” 05 degrees Celsius.

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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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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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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

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. anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. The 10 Biggest Carbon-dioxide Emitting Firms In The World (1965 to 2017) Saudi Aramco, 59.26

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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. Consumer Choice Center was founded in 2017 by the libertarian advocacy group Students for Liberty.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

The new report features voluntary disclosures on climate-related information and details Ford's progress to reduce emissions per vehicle by 50 per cent from a 2019 base year and emissions from its operations by 76 per cent from a 2017 base.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

Spikes in environmental social media activity followed the release of the documentary Blue Planet 2 in 2017 and Greta Thunberg's activism in 2018, whereas international climate events such as the Paris Agreement of 2015 appeared less influential. Global warming has contributed to a temperature increase of around 1.5C

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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. Over the last few years, record-breaking temperatures across Canada have been accompanied by unprecedented wildfire seasons and floods.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

global warming scenario. Supported by investor engagement, we're seeing encouraging commitments and net-zero leaders beginning to emerge, but a broader step change is urgently required if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Guardian reports a record breaking 6% tourism increase from 2017 to 2018, a huge beneficiary to the global economy. Prior to the covid-19 pandemic, the tourism industry was booming. The industry has been growing exponentially since the end of the second world war. From 25m tourist visits in 1950.

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