DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” It almost seems quaint that they’re still running with this.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, If global warming is your religion, that’s fine.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified. “Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers. Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 12, 2022

It has become a recent meme that the whole concept of a personal carbon footprint was created by the fossil fuel industry to shift the ‘blame’ for climate change from them to the public (an argument that doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny*).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2012, Truss co-authored the book Britannia Unchained , which took a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology” and argued for a low-tax, deregulated economy. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. He said Truss should tax fossil fuel company profits, freeze energy bills and insulate homes.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is no less dangerous to the planet than other fossil fuel pipelines. Globally, the MVP runs counter to the transition away from fossil fuels and towards increasingly cheap sources of clean, renewable energy. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

That was my first question in early March, when a new book about geoengineering, Hacking Planet Earth , authored by journalist Thomas Kostigen , landed on my desk. In its purest sense, geoengineering refers to the deliberate manipulation of the environment to help thwart the effects of global warming. Intriguing?

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 14, 2021

Rachel Carson wrote the infamous book, Silent Spring, exposing the adverse ecological impacts of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). The eco-conscious movement swept through the agricultural industry decades before rooftop solar panels, and electric vehicles hit the market. The popular insecticide decreased the sustainability of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Now, of course, fossil fuels are not the answer. And in a country like ours, where you see the price of renewables are something like a quarter of that of fossil fuels - a quarter of the price of gas - shrinking back from the green transition is not the answer, and we need to assert that.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Business Green

APRIL 10, 2022

How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming – and its consequences, according to leading scientists Michael E. How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming - and its consequences. Mann and Tom Bateman.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

utilizing fossil fuels for automobiles and electricity) which are difficult for the earth to adequately absorb through its natural cycles. For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes, How do we tackle climate change? Every green business has a different approach?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. Echoing those unrealized book chapters, last year Kivalina joined forces with several Louisiana tribes that were impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fundamentally, to avoid putting a molecule of CO 2 into the air from the global energy system — for example switching from fossil fuels to wind or solar — is far easier than getting that molecule back out. C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossil fuels. And it manifests as natural phenomena like heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods; we need experts, assessing global data and long-term trends, to tell us if what is happening is truly unusual.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. Reading this book was kind of like the moment in The Matrix when Neo is given the choice of the red and blue pill. of global GHGs. One third of crop land in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

This report demonstrates that if we only implement the 42 projects currently on the Coal Authority’s books, we will deliver almost 4,500 direct jobs and a further 9-11,000 in the supply chain, at the same time saving 90,500 tonnes of carbon.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). The other big shift this year was a clear sprint for the exits from fossil fuel investment.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. “My strong impression is that there is growing agreement in the international and environmental community that research on this topic makes sense.”.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route. This article is taken from Bloomberg.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 1995, a leading group of scientists convened by the United Nations declared that they had detected a “human influence” on global temperatures with “effectively irreversible” consequences. percent of scientists would come to agree that burning fossil fuels had disrupted the Earth’s climate. In the coming decades, 99.9

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

This week, delegates and advocates are gathering in Ottawa, Canada, for the fourth intergovernmental negotiating committee, or INC-4 — the second-to-last session on the books before the U.N.’s Under a very optimistic scenario, it could include global, legally binding plastic production caps for all U.N. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Aviation, which is responsible for around two to three per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is widely regarded as a major net zero challenge due to its reliance on fossil fuels and the relative nascency of low carbon alternatives, such as electric, hydrogen, or biofueled aircraft.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

This piece is adapted from the forthcoming book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next , which will be published by University of California Press in September. With increasing frenzy, humans are binge-burning fossil fuels. All these mitigations will fail unless we end the burning of fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. The crime in question is the fossil fuel industry’s 40 years of lying about climate change. Their aim was “to reposition global warming as theory, not fact,” one planning document stated. By Mark Hertsgaard.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New analysis reveals Net Zero Banking Alliance members funnelled $33bn towards expanding oil and gas production over past year, but banks insist they are working to reduce their exposure to fossil fuels. temperature goal alive. If oil and gas demand decreases in line with 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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