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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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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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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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. Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Global warming of 1.5 References.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

“Mine energy, the use of the geothermally heated water in abandoned coal mines, is not a new technology, but it is one with the potential to deliver thousands of jobs and drive economic growth in some of the most disadvantaged communities in our country.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

It’s a technology so controversial that even the prospect of researching it can provoke anxiety — and backlash. The SCoPEx plans for Kiruna constitute a real moral hazard,” they wrote, adding that the technology “entails risks of catastrophic consequences.” The world has already warmed 1.2 SCoPEx was no exception.

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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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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 24, 2024

Discussions about plastic tend to focus on individuals doing their part by reducing, reusing, and recycling, Charron said — but “we’re not going to simply recycle our way or technology our way out of this problem.” To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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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. The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. Myth #3: Technology will save us, so we don’t have to act.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

The International Energy Agency warns in a new analysis that if the world hopes to reach net zero emissions by 2050, widely seen as necessary to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, there should be no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects or in new coal-fired power plants that don’t capture their carbon emissions.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. The development in renewable technologies has led to human development both way rural and urban. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Several promising carbon reduction measures are combined which are technically viable and based on matured technology, although scaling of existing technologies and cooperation with key partners is required. Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Instead, Polman advocates for a holistic approach, advanced in his 2021 book co-authored with Andrew Winston - "Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take" - Here are three big shifts the co-founder and co-CEO of the Imagine consultancy is pushing for corporate leaders to make: 1.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

That is the lofty and inspiring conclusion from an international team of scientists and economists who today published a major new analysis of global economic trends, which warns of rising social tensions should the world continue on its current unsustainable path and sets out alternative "survival pathways for humanity".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The Trump administration rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations and sought to gain energy independence based on finite fossil fuels. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. The Trump administration rolled back 98 environmental rules and regulations and sought to gain energy independence based on finite fossil fuels. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

People familiar with Exxon’s CCS projects described it as a significant setback, because LaBarge was in an advanced state, used proven technology, and would have made money. of all global emissions, would have to rise 100-fold to 200-fold by 2050 to meet climate goals, according to the International Energy Agency.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Conservative author and fossil fuel activist Alex Epstein had a modest YouTube following of 15.2 She didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog. It’s out!”

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Jerome hopes to attend either Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, or Princeton University. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The cabinet still contains four ministers (one of them promoted) who back in 2012 co-wrote a controversial book called Britannia Unchained, which takes a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology”. One said: “Clear evidence that the ice caps aren’t melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” ” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. kilowatt output,” according to the book. business and political history.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

In my new book, “ Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis ,” I lay out connections between these industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy. This has enabled the expansion of fossil fuel production and escalated CO2 emissions to dangerous levels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. STATE CONTROL a) Conflation/annexation b) Private and public use of the technology of persuasion c) Democracy as a marketplace d) Propaganda and despotism 4.

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