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Why electrification is key to curbing future climate change

Smart Energy International

The reality of climate change and its effect on our environment is indisputable. Significantly increasing renewables in the energy mix, while meeting growing demand for power, requires greater innovation. Replacing large-scale fossil fuel power stations with renewable solutions goes far beyond the energy generation itself.

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The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul

The Verge: Energy

Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Governments and utilities need to add or replace the equivalent of virtually all the world’s power grids by 2040 to reliably keep the lights on while cleaning up pollution from the power sector. But power grids aren’t keeping up, and it puts that 1.5-degree

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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

“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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Renewables overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as Britain's power grid enjoys 'greenest year' yet

Business Green

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, rising to 56 per cent when nuclear power is included. In contrast, fossil fuel sources made up 39.6

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Puerto Rican Cities Sue Fossil Fuel Companies in Major Class-Action, Climate Fraud Case

DeSmogBlog

Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against fossil fuel companies following “a series of violent storms.” The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, in which both Irma and Maria hit, saw six major hurricanes and resulted in nearly $300 billion of damage.

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

vehicle fleet, considered crucial to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. We need more transformative adaptation actions to keep pace with climate change.” Here they are.