Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Biodiversity loss and dangerous Climate Change potentiate each other in their disastrous consequences. But according to EASAC, catastrophically disrupting trends are proceeding as gradual incremental changes as well.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. Eni did not respond to a request for comment on its early knowledge of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A new independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps for the UK was published on 2 December by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). There is now a path to expected global warming of under 2°C, but only if all the ambition in new mid-century Net Zero targets is delivered, alongside national 2030 emissions targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But, Dr Khosla says, ‘The global community must commit to sustainable cooling, or risk locking the world into a deadly feedback loop, where demand for cooling energy drives further greenhouse gas emissions and results in even more global warming.’. The scale of the challenge is immense.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I think it’s funny that humans have this enormous taboo about a biological function that’s ultimately going to help us survive climate change,” said Sarah Everts, the author of The Joy of Sweat. These kinds of leaps are a lot for our bodies to handle, making heat waves in cooler climates especially deadly.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. The research findings are important because of the vital role the Amazon plays in the global climate system.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While most studies on microplastics have focused on aquatic ecosystems, few have looked at their impact on cloud formation and climate change. Microplastics in the free troposphere are transported and contribute to global pollution,” said Okochi.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

conservative magazine National Review. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”. Reform’s policy platform claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Peterson Academy will also offer a course from Michael Shermer, the editor-in-chief of Skeptic Magazine, on “critical thinking and scientific reasoning.” Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Pooley is a senior fellow with The Discovery Institute , a U.S.-based

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Steyn made his claims in the National Review, a prominent conservative magazine, and has continued to stand by them. Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. According to the website Skeptical Science, which debunks climate misinformation, Climate The Movie contains more than two dozen myths about climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Image credit: Kerckweb / Shutterstock.com Scotland’s environmental regulator has issued a civil penalty of £75,000 to a health food supplements manufacturer for failing to provide a leakage detection system on equipment containing powerful greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the latest round of climate talks taking place in Glasgow, the report finds that net zero pledges could make a big difference. If fully implemented, these pledges could bring the predicted global temperature rise to 2.2°C,

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C. Reforming our energy system is one of the most important measures to mitigate climate change. Globally, only 3% of power capacity is being stored.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a result of climate change, the marine sediments are warming and releasing the greenhouse gas. The key question is: how much methane is released into the atmosphere and accelerates global warming? Another submarine source of methane is the microbial decomposition of organic material in lower sediment layers.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2020

Recently published research in Science magazine warns that older, taller trees are quickly becoming a thing of the past, consequently leaving forests in disarray. Without the necessary carbon storage from forest trees, global temperatures will continue to rise and intensify consequent climate change damage.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

Earlier in August, it launched a drive for investors to help in the fight against climate change, with a £100,000 share release. Wildlife biologist Eleanor Shield said: “Human activities have caused global warming, which is increasing to dangerous levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and co-CEO of Climeworks: “We founded Climeworks with the vision to provide the world a tech that has the potential to reverse climate change. Accelerating the scale up of carbon removal capacity will play a crucial role in global efforts to keep global warming under 1.5°C,

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Keynote speakers: Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, and Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Green New Deal and Energy. The guardians of the Paris Agreement have concluded AD is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to keep global warming below 2 ? This could double within a few years.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Hailed as a milestone in the fight against climate change, it sets out plans to build a plant capable of removing 4000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. The collaboration between ON, Carbfix and Climeworks showcases how innovative projects can come together to create and scale-up one of the solutions to global warming.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century. We are now out of time.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Climate-tech company A Healthier Earth has been announced as the official biochar partner at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

UnHerd has published multiple articles and videos critical of climate action, including an interview in July with Bjorn Lomborg about “ how global warming will save lives ”. Marshall is involved in other projects that are linked to key opponents of climate action. Ofcom currently has 12 open investigations into GB News.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

.” Charlotte Morton, WBA Chief Executive, added: ” Current nations’ climate plans deliver a hopeless 1% of the 45% greenhouse gas emissions reductions the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says is required to keep climate warming to below 2C.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

If humans continue on a moderate emissions pathway, by 2057 there’s a two-thirds chance that the planet will at least temporarily exceed warming of 2 degrees Celsius. The study was published June 6 in Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change). Different emissions can either warm or cool the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), methane (CH 4 ) emissions have been responsible for a significant proportion of the 1.1°C C rise already experienced in global temperatures. Reducing methane emissions to fight global warming. Methane leakage – a significant problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

The film aims to depict the unique features, habitats and activities of different forests whilst highlighting the impact of the climate emergency on the world’s forests and their importance for mitigating global warming and supporting life.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 27, 2021

It’s been a busy week for the latest member of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group – trending on Twitter, if not in real life. Steve Baker MP , the most recently appointed trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , did not enter the fold quietly.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Conducted international sustainability research network Future Earth, the survey identifies five global risks — failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation; extreme weather events; major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; food crises; and water crises — as the most severe in terms of impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C by the end of the century – a temperature that will result in the planet facing climate disaster. An alternative approach to carbon pricing.

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