AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Recent research published in Global Environmental Change has revealed that only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. According to the study, regular “super emitters” are polluting the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly. Continued here:Â .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Four months later, during the COP27 climate summit, Frost joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group. The IPCC has said the role of human-caused emissions on climate change is “unequivocal”, and that human action can limit global warming.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Instead, the most common lies about climate change now have to do with denying the benefits of clean energy, attacking policies meant to slash planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels, and maligning scientists and advocates that push for change. New climate denial tactics may have already made an impression on young YouTube viewers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Kruger worked as a senior adviser to the Legatum Institute from 2017 to 2018.

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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

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

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. This is a significant decrease from 2018, when the panel predicted a 55 percent chance of staying below that threshold.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The report has an article and quotes from FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox , the APPG’s public enquiry point, and quotes APPG vice-chair Steve Baker MP and Graham Stringer MP , both trustees of the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and Lord Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Fracking for shale gas is a controversial practice that risks causing air, water, and noise pollution. She claims that, in 2018, when she was chief secretary to the Treasury, she made “11th-hour attempts to ditch COP26”, the UN climate summit hosted by the UK in 2021, arguing that it was not a spending priority.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But just two of the 203 events listed make any reference to fossil fuels, which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says are the dominant cause of global warming. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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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. It has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Global agricultural practices are a major culprit, with monoculture farming (corn and soybeans in particular), pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, all playing a devastating role. That’s in addition to habitat destruction, deforestation, urbanization, pollution, and other activities attributed to human action.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Coal of course is the most polluting fossil fuel, one reason why it’s hard to ignore in a climate agreement.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities Cecilia Keating Thu, 10/29/2020 – 00:10 Carbon intensive companies in the U.S. View original post here: Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities.

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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. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. John Bello (2018). Willemijn Brouwer (2018). Joseph Gale (2018).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Climate Science Denial Groups Global Warming Policy Foundation / Net Zero Watch The opaquely-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, is the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

describing a method used by the company Carbon Engineering, gives a range at $94-235 per tCO 2 (Keith 2018). C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018). Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. C by 2100 pushing global temperature over 2°C.

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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that global energy demand grew 2.3 percent in 2018 with fossil fuels accounting for almost 70 percent of growing demand for electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Jerry Brown in 2018. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Ocean acidification, global warming, pollution: the causes of these threats are many and particularly difficult to address, insofar as they are extremely diffuse, and result from our entire development paradigm. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. The report also claims freshwater species populations have seen the greatest overall global decline, at 83%. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). billion tons of CO2e were dumped into the atmosphere in 2018 and coal power spewed a record breaking 10 billion tons of carbon into the air in 2019. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

million in fines for environmental violations since beginning construction in 2018, and more fines are likely on the way. Globally, the MVP runs counter to the transition away from fossil fuels and towards increasingly cheap sources of clean, renewable energy. The MVP has received over $2.5 billion MVP is now $2.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the northern California community and killed at least 85 people. “We A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

He recently critiqued policies such as Canada’s cap on oil and gas pollution as belonging to “a slew of costly, ineffective regulatory and subsidy schemes.” By the time of his death in 2018 he owned at least five homes across Ontario and Europe along with a 140-foot-long yacht called the Golden Eagle.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Related: Will gene editing and cloning create super cows that resist global warming? This is not because organic meat causes less pollution but because it is already more expensive than conventional meat. Meat produced either organically or conventionally pollutes the environment in many ways.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The findings come as the banking industry receives increased scrutiny for financing polluting projects and builds upon previous analysis by DeSmog showing climate-conflicted board members at many of the UK’s top banks and across bank boards worldwide. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2020

From scorched landscapes to melting ice caps and polluted oceans, the impacts of climate change are clear and immediate. Despite the warning signs, progress to limit global warming remains slow and inadequate. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C Can the disruption of covid-19 accelerate progress?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

An annual greenhouse gas inventory released last week for 2018 — the latest available data — showed vehicle exhaust remains the state’s largest problem, but the sharpest year-over-year increase came in the residential sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% metric tons.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Critics also point out that CCUS involves storing the carbon produced by fossil fuels rather than switching to renewable energy sources, thus permitting polluters to keep profiting from oil and gas exploration. Fossil Fuel Interests Policy Exchange also has links to gas industry members advocating for the transition to hydrogen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming".

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