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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. Scientist Ivor van Heerden stands next to the Bayou Bridge pipeline on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin in 2019. It’s going to spread quickly,” said van Heerden, who was commissioned by the Sierra Club to assess the location. It will kill you.”

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

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With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year). Nature is no longer on our side.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

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Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

LSU Center for River Studies on April 22, 2019, where the CPRA showed guests how it uses its a 3D scale model of the lower Mississippi River to make projections about the MBSD. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

In September 2020 the extent of the oldest ice (4+ years old) was 230,000 square kilometers, slightly more than 5% of total sea ice. This is considerably higher compared to 2019, when the 4+ year old ice extent stood at 55,000 square kilometers. Overall since the 1980s however, sea ice has become much thinner and younger.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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How Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

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Former Attorney General Suella Braverman was probably the most vocal in her opposition to climate action during the Tory leadership race, vowing to “suspend the all-consuming desire to achieve Net Zero by 2050”. Badenoch has insisted she does “believe in climate change”, but said “there is a better way of going about these things.”.