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Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit

DeSmogBlog

The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. In her book, Ten Years to Save the West , which she is promoting widely this week, Truss writes that “the zealous drive to net zero”, the UK’s legally binding 2050 climate target, amounts to “unilateral economic disarmament” and is “a drag on economic growth”.

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Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint

AGreenLiving

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming is a must-read book… The post Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911. Read more: Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." His point was to make it clear that "we are not climate change deniers." Risk & Resilience.

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Whose carbon is it anyway?

Terra Infirma

I’ve mentioned before that over the summer I got into a Twitter row over how much the individual should take responsibility for their carbon footprint. On the other hand, when I had a hernia a couple of years ago, I had little say over the huge global warming potential of the anaesthetic gas I was given.

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Former Climate Change Denier Now Leading BC’s Top Business Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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Industry ‘Sabotaged’ Climate Solutions, ‘Petroleum Papers’ Author Told Canadian Senate

DeSmogBlog

I’m the author of The Petroleum Papers , which was named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington Post. While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s.

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Old School Climate Science Denial Lingers on Outskirts of Tory Conference

DeSmogBlog

Printed by the Bruges Group, which has a history of backing climate science denial, the leaflets promoted the new book CO2 – Nature’s Gift by Jeremy Nieboer, who was scheduled to give multiple talks. Net Zero Watch Fracking Panel. Net Zero Watch Fracking Panel. Reform UK leader Richard Tice at the Bruges Group event. Credit: DeSmog.