DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

A study of California’s fires in 2018 – another hot, dry year – when the town of Paradise burned, estimated the damage , including health costs and economic disruption, at about $148.5 Rising global temperatures , worsening storms and sea level rise will affect everyone in harm’s way, regardless of the person’s social group.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. Ida Tarbell is one of the most celebrated investigative journalists in American history.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Previously an avowed free marketeer, having written the controversial “Britannia Unchained” book with Liz Truss and others, colleagues say he “underwent a conversion at BEIS, becoming convinced of the need for intervention and the potential for clean energy”, according to the Guardian. Therese Coffey – Health Secretary.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. Brown also signed aggressive new laws committing to carbon-free electricity statewide by 2045 and requiring solar on all new homes.

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