DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky The diversion project lies at the intersection of two crises: the state’s alarming coastal land-loss rate and the essential threat of climate change. This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 3, 2021

Oil and Gas Majors Receive New Marching Orders It was a big month for how oil and gas companies approach climate change. First, in a landmark ruling, Dutch courts ordered Shell to cut emissions 45% by 2030, in order to be consistent with the Paris Climate Accords. degrees celsius.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Lot’s of Methane.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The event’s chair Diana Furchtgott-Roth – who is director of Heritage’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment – wrote an article for Forbes last month which argued that the West should encourage “all countries” to use “natural gas, coal, and nuclear” to help the poor.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To achieve this stricter goal, global greenhouse gas emissions would have to be slashed in half from current levels by 2030. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that even if these targets are met, we’ll see grim impacts from climate change leading up to 2030 and beyond. Sea levels are doing pretty much the same thing.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. Today, denying the reality of climate change isn’t as easy, and it is certainly more controversial. They lied, manipulated, and deceived. Doomsday Scenarios.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

trillion Build Back Better Act filled with social and climate program expansions — purports to take on climate change, but Thunberg dismissed the legislation in her comments during the opening session of the Youth4Climate event in Milan, Italy, on September 28. Climate Leadership?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some Louisiana Democrats are frustrated that the Party accepted utility donations, which they say are egregious considering the state’s vulnerability to climate change. Utility companies and power producers have kept Louisiana dependent on fossil fuels, despite rising natural gas prices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

My work documents the ongoing trend of science denial becoming increasingly woven into right-wing rhetoric by steadfast Trump supporters , the impacts of extreme weather fueled by climate change, and the actions taken by climate advocates fighting for environmental justice and against pollution from the fossil fuel industry.

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