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

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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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Climate change author to deliver keynote at water technology event

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Renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur and bestselling author Paul Hawken has been announced as a keynote speaker at global water technology event BlueTech Forum 2022 , which takes place 7-8 June 2022 in Vancouver. He has written eight books that have been published in 50 countries, selling more than two million copies.

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

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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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Boris Johnson Meets Coal Baron on India Tour Despite Calling For End to Dirtiest Fossil Fuel

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Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies.”. Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies. ‘Consigning Coal to History’ The UK has used its presidency of COP26 to call for a global phase-out of coal-fired power.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

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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.” I believe that there will always be environmental problems and that we can nearly always solve them with improved knowledge, science, and technology.”

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Jordan Peterson’s Climate Expert is Science Denier Funded by Oil-Backed Think Tank

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million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer. Not only that, those models – and other more recent ones – have been pretty accurate in estimating how much warming we would get.”. Peterson responded to the criticism on Thursday in tweets to his 2.2

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A defence of geoengineering

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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?