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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions. As DeSmog has reported, Policy Exchange received $30,000 from oil corporation ExxonMobil in 2017. They are pushing for as much blue hydrogen as possible, to ensure they can use some of their assets for decades longer.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. However, in practice on the human and utility timescales, the impact remains unchanged and is significant. A reference value is 0.5%kg/year,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

But a more authoritative and high profile source of the view that burning biomass is bad for the climate is a 2017 report prepared for the prestigious think-tank Chatham House called Woody Biomass for Power and Heat. Chatham House, 2017. At Drax woodpellets emit 12 percent more carbon per kilowatt hour generated than coal. REFERENCES.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts. The company in 2017 spun off from its parent Hispanagar, a 50-year-old producer of seaweed extracts for uses in food production and medical science.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

So, I hope you can easily see that the scale of action required of society, if it is to restrict global warming to under 1.5° In November 2017, Shell announced its Net Carbon Footprint ambition. In short, our 2017 ambition meant seeking to radically transform Shell to establish new business opportunities.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. However, plastics themselves are produced from fossil fuels – and they are known to release greenhouse gases such as methane and ethylene as they degrade. Disposable plastics are posing serious problems for our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. So Biven is determined to make sure her “Methane Memo,” which lays out a plan to safeguard the funds, makes its way to him. Methane Without Measure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The fossil fuel industry’s attempts at image control extend beyond its own brands to its products, especially methane, or as the industry likes to call it, natural gas. More than 60 percent of Americans (and 89 percent of Democrats) say that oil companies are “completely or mostly” responsible for global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. of global warming by 2050. temperature goal is to be kept alive. Is the US poised to get it first federal green bank?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group.

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