DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An influential US think tank has hosted a well-known UK climate science denier at an event attacking what one speaker called Europe’s “socialist” net zero policies. The GWPF published two reports this year rejecting climate science on the greenhouse effect. It’s not a conservative agenda, in fact it’s a socialist agenda.”.

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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION I have a deep love for the environment at all levels?—?not At a conceptual level, I believe that the ecosystem must be balanced and that among the largest issues facing the world?—?poverty climate change is among the largest issue that our generation faces. outdoors and wildlife.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. 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.”

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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. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The findings, the first comprehensive assessment of tipping points since 2008, are consistent with a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change , which showed that some global warming impacts are now unavoidable, even if countries curtail emissions. Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images. “I

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. No more analyses of atmospheric dynamics or predictions of how high sea level will rise. “We

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Grist

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The impacts of a changing Arctic are not confined to those who live there. The researchers noted that the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, due in large part to the region’s ice and snow.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 12, 2020

The fossil fuel industry is driving feedback loops that include both melting permafrost and sea level rise. The Arctic is warming faster than the rate of global average warming. The pipeline was acquired by the Canadian federal government after it agreed to pay Texas energy giant Kinder Morgan $4.5

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Grist

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

in 2016, set a target of keeping global warming to no more than 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, with an ambitious goal of keeping it below 1.5 To achieve this stricter goal, global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be slashed in half from current levels by 2030.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

On the website of CAR26 the group questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests that teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. Perry has said the climate crisis is a “con” designed by “elites” to make people poor and hungry.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anybody who’s watched the news over the past month will know that the effects of climate change are becoming too pressing to ignore. Put together by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the comprehensive report confirms that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans, and land.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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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. Anxiety is a growing and understandable psychological response to climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for summarizing the world’s climate knowledge and releasing it in roughly decadal, 3,000-plus-page installments — published its latest report on Monday, the findings were just as grim as usual. degrees Celsius (2.7 Far from it.

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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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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

The planet's extreme situation demands a much more aggressive approach, argue Imagine's Paul Polman, Agder Energi's Steffen Syvertsen, and Bjørn K Haugland from Skift Business Climate Leaders. Until recently, most of us thought that the climate crisis was far away. Climate change is at our doorstep.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The author of the article is, as director of the climate science website Carbon Brief, Leo Hickman, noted , a consultant for “companies operating in the energy sector.”. Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. Changing Extremes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. We need immediate action on energy. Without deep carbon pollution cuts now, the 1.5-degree

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. Right now, clouds are one of the least understood factors in climate change research. “We

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Rinexii

JANUARY 13, 2023

billion to improve public health and reduce pollution Green roofing and rooftop gardens, clean energy, and zero emission school buses will all help reduce emissions and help cool off urban areas. As sea levels rise and floods become more common, infrastructure like this will be all the more critical to reducing damage.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The dust has barely settled on the Conservative Party leadership race and the new UK government has already begun confirming many climate campaigners’ worst fears about the direction Liz Truss intends to take the country in. Jacob Rees-Mogg – Business and Energy Secretary. The Obstructors.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. .

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

With respect to the warnings of the severity of climate change, this is presently far from the case. With regard to addressing climate change, the transition to a new renewable energy-based paradigm is the greatest economic opportunity of all time. The challenge.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The report also highlights that insufficient investment in water infrastructure and water management is fuelling a raft of longer term risks, which are likely to be further exacerbated by climate change. Water can support efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change.".

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thousands of the world's leading climate scientists, after over three years of work, today delivered yet another landmark report on the state of the climate and ecological emergency the world now faces. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

It provides a steer on the solutions and services that policymakers have - nominally at least - pledged to support as part of their response to the climate crisis, and it provides a helpful summary of the various ways climate change will impact the ecosystems, infrastructure, and workers all businesses rely on.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the IPCC's latest sobering warning on the worsening climate crisis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a major report setting out why action to tackle greenhouse emissions is so critical and where efforts to tackle the crisis should be concentrated.

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