Is it too late to stop climate change?
GatesNotes
DECEMBER 7, 2020
In the fourth episode of our podcast, we debate whether people should be optimistic about preventing a climate disaster.
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The might of metals in the clean energy transition
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Copper supplies, for example, need to increase by as much as 6 percent per year to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement. Other metals supplies need to rise, too, in order to get companies and countries to their carbon neutrality goals — phasing out fossil fuels. . Wed, 02/10/2021 - 01:15.
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Bill McKibben reflects on brand advocacy, the final frontier of climate leadership
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Bill McKibben reflects on brand advocacy, the final frontier of climate leadership. Many of us feared for the future of climate action, and pretty much every other social and environmental issue. Many of us feared for the future of climate action, and pretty much every other social and environmental issue. Mike Hower.
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5 Ways We Can Stop Ocean Acidification
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 20, 2022
While the best way to stop ocean acidification is to reverse climate change, there are other smaller steps we can take that can make a difference. While the best way to stop ocean acidification is to reverse climate change, there are other smaller steps we can take that can make a difference.
The ‘doomsday’ glacier is melting faster than scientists thought
Grist
MAY 24, 2024
We really, really need to understand how fast the ice is changing,” said Christine Dow, an associate professor of glaciology at the University of Waterloo and one of the study’s authors. “We As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, glaciers and ice sheets in polar and mountainous regions inevitably melt.
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20-year research project reveals “devastating loss of British & Irish flora“
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 15, 2023
The creators of the new Plant Atlas say it is “the most powerful statement ever produced on the state of our wild and naturalised plants“ Thousands of botanists from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) 1 have spent the last twenty years collecting data on changes in the British and Irish flora.
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Pro-Trump Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe
DeSmogBlog
MAY 3, 2024
The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal. These anti-climate ads were active for 22 days on average on Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram), while they were displayed for 9.5 million times on X.
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Why people still fall for fake news about climate change
Grist
DECEMBER 18, 2023
percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. Yet almost 30 years after that warning, during the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years , people are still arguing that the science is unreliable, or that the threat is real but we shouldn’t do anything about climate change.
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Critics Say Barclays’ New Restrictions on Financing Oil and Gas Projects Are Too Limited and Too Late
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Barclays, one of the largest banks headquartered in the European Union, will stop funding new oil and gas projects. The shift is part of a slew of internal changes geared toward curbing emissions. By that standard, Barclays is late to the party. “I
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Little Things You Can Do To Live More Sustainably
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 15, 2021
By living more sustainably , we can hopefully stop the situation from getting out of control before it’s too late. They’re four little things you can do that will make you more sustainable without drastically changing your life. Of course, not everyone wants to completely overhaul their life for the sake of the planet.
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London Luton Airport Hit With Greenwashing Complaint Over Pro-expansion Ads
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 29, 2024
Eight climate groups have asked the UK advertising watchdog to assess whether environmental claims in recent Luton Airport ads are misleading the public. The ads state that the proposed expansion of Luton Airport would be “stopped in its tracks” if it misses its “environmental limits”. Our community. Our planet.”
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Nobody ever said Sustainability was going to be easy…
Terra Infirma
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
It is all too easy to persuade ourselves that, while others must change, we are an exception. Here in the UK, relatively minor traffic restrictions to stop rat-running through residential neighbourhoods have also attracted the tinfoil hat brigade – along with many who should know better hinting at darker forces at play.
Why California is Taking Big Oil to Court — and Why it Matters
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Gavin Newsom on the opening day of Climate Week NYC. The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change.
This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 26, 2024
When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C
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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2020
This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.
In Rochdale By-Election, Climate Policy is Also on the Ballot
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. It is too late for Labour to field another candidate, and Ali will now run as an independent.
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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021
GreenBiz
MARCH 8, 2021
25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021. By not including women at equal levels — in companies, in government, in NGOs and elsewhere — the climate movement is itself experiencing a crisis, they argue. "As Heather Clancy. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 02:00. The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S.
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Jordan Peterson Generates Millions of YouTube Hits for Climate Crisis Deniers
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Fringe climate crisis deniers who claim that the earth is “cooling” and greenhouse emissions are good for “biological productivity” are getting exposed to millions more people than they normally would on YouTube thanks to conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. ARC advisor Ramaswamy: ‘the climate change agenda is a hoax.’
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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.
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The future of fossil fuels could be decided in Dubai
The Verge: Energy
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 30: COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber during the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? Namely, should they even have a future? Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2 With around 1.2
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The growing popularity of degrowth
Grist
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me in the sunny coach section. “We’re hurtling toward these major climate deadlines,” Hu said. The vision It’s a five-minute bike ride to the train station.
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Not-so-clear and present danger
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 7, 2022
Envirotec tries to join the dots. The publication of a landmark report on water quality in England’s rivers, on 13 January, appeared to uncover “multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement on water quality”, as MP Philip Dunne of the Environmental Audit Committee (EC), which authored the report, put it.
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How Europe can lead the way in transitioning oil and gas to geothermal
ThinkGeoEnergy
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
However, it is also one that is inevitable with effects of climate change becoming more dangerous and unpredictable, prompting a more drastic response to reduce CO2 emissions as the world nears the imminent tipping point. 3 Rapid climate change and the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C,
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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.
Grist
JANUARY 21, 2022
But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? It sent tsunami waves surging across the entire West Coast.
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Is it irresponsible or ‘doomism’ to predict societal collapse?
Low Impact
OCTOBER 24, 2021
OK, so we’re talking about a definite break with the current system – and as I’ve said before many times on this blog, system change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us; and if we wait until nature does it, it won’t be pretty. Is collapse going to happen? In fact, what does ‘collapse’ even mean?
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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.
Grist
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
That was the depressing story since the 1990s, but things have recently changed for the better. Forest loss has only accelerated since the 2014 United Nations climate summit, when a collection of multinational food companies and governments committed to stop it entirely. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists.
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Inaction on Climate Change Is a Death Sentence for Emperor Penguin Chicks
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Like me, despite having misgivings about taking a cruise geared towards tourists, they wanted to visit Antarctica to see the emperor penguins before it is too late. Like me, despite having misgivings about taking a cruise geared towards tourists, they wanted to visit Antarctica to see the emperor penguins before it is too late.
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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And how were humans causing this change? Catch up on part one. Document 7: 1981. Available at ClimateFiles.
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Is net zero maximalism blinding us to the death of business as usual?
Business Green
JULY 18, 2023
This dichotomy is hard to break, not least because it suits both climate hawks and climate sceptics alike. From the climate hawk perspective, the focus simply has to remain on net zero emissions by 2050 at the absolute latest. It is much too late for incrementalism.
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‘Eco-Fraud’: Influential Motorcycle Lobby Group Promotes Climate Science Denial
DeSmogBlog
JULY 28, 2023
A well-connected motorcycle lobby group is denying climate science and telling bikers that climate change is an “eco-fraud” that will “cost you your freedom”, DeSmog can reveal. MAG’s campaign comes as opponents of climate action are increasingly spreading false information about traffic control policies.
UN report warns climate change could spur 50% more wildfires by 2100
Grist
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Australia’s Black Summer, the devastating fire season that started in late 2019 and burned through early 2020, razed some 4.4 By 2100, the likelihood of unusually intense fire seasons happening in a given year will have increased by 31 to 57 percent, depending on the rate of global climate change. report is already baked in.
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How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
The Verge: Energy
JANUARY 3, 2024
A new study uses deep learning and satellite imagery to create the first global map of vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure. Image: Global Fishing Watch Using satellite imagery and AI, researchers have mapped human activity at sea with more precision than ever before. The maps were published today in the journal Nature.
The PR Industry Has Been a ‘Major’ But ‘Overlooked’ Influence in Climate Politics for Decades, Says Study
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
From coining “clean coal” to “carbon footprint,” public relations firms have been instrumental in shaping the public discourse around climate and energy policy, and as a new study underlines, their powerful efforts have flown under the radar for too long. PR firms intentionally try to remain invisible.
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‘There’s no alternative’: Louisiana’s ambitious plan to stay above water
Grist
MARCH 16, 2021
Louisiana has never been hard to pinpoint on a map — it’s the only state in the U.S. that looks like a giant boot. At least it did, before the ocean swallowed the carbon emissions belched out by industrializing nations and began to swell. Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. This month, the U.S.
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Engaging Middle America in recycling solutions
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
As of late May, smack in the middle of the pandemic, these numbers dropped dramatically, down to 2013 levels at 33 percent and 19 percent respectively. We were just as worried about plastics in the ocean and climate change in early March as we were last summer, but that concern plummeted in May. .
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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Major food and farming corporations will be seeking to steer conversations in Dubai via an influential coalition: the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) initiative.
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Extinction Rebellion Blockade Central London Street to Kick Off Fortnight of Protests
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 23, 2021
Hundreds of climate activists are occupying a busy street in central London today in the first of two weeks of protest against the UK financial sector’s continued investment in fossil fuels. “We need large social change to tackle climate change”, he told DeSmog. Now we are running out of time.
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A Guide to the Anti-Net Zero Forces in Westminster Politics
DeSmogBlog
JULY 26, 2023
This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”.
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We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
Grist
JANUARY 4, 2022
I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached coral, the signature of conflict on a seabird island in the Gulf of Maine is a maddening quietude. My head said of course it is.
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Carbon Capture: Silver Bullet or Mirage?
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are seen as increasingly vital components of achieving climate goals because the pace of clean-energy deployment does not seem fast enough to avoid significant levels of global warming. Low carbon prices bode poorly for CCS' prospects.
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Summer Reflection
Defend Our Future
AUGUST 26, 2021
I don’t know that there’s ever been a better summer to be working on climate issues. Maybe I should say I don’t know that climate issues have ever felt more urgent. forgetting the massive fires in Greece and Australia and the rising tides that threaten to swallow up entire nations among countless other existential climate threats.
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The problem with COP26
Low Impact
OCTOBER 31, 2021
The main problem is that the solutions generated will assume that no fundamental changes to the economy are required. I wouldn’t be as impolite, of course, as to call what’s coming at COP26 an ‘ avalanche of climate b t ’, but here’s how I would put it. It’s too late for maintaining the status quo.
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Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 16, 2022
A super absurd example of oil and gas companies appropriating and weaponizing the language of climate advocates for their own greenwashing,” commented author and climate activist Genevieve Guenther on Twitter. Ultimately, they’ve been using it to obstruct climate action, a longtime goal of the oil, gas, and coal industries. “If
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Cabinet Ministers Join Outspoken Climate Science Deniers at National Conservatism Conference
DeSmogBlog
MAY 15, 2023
A DeSmog analysis has found climate denial and a hostility to net zero to be a common feature among many of the individuals speaking at the three-day summit. They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group.
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