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French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds

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French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. The company publicly accepted climate science in the 1990s but promoted “policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control”, the authors found.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

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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. Document 1: 1959. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

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In the document, the science advisory group calls for far-reaching policy action. So far, EU policies have centered on the concept of ‘Nearly-zero energy buildings’ with a focus on reducing the consumption of energy used to provide comfort to building occupants.

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‘Bombshell’ 1989 Shell Memo Features in New Court Filing Alleging Climate Deception

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Conflict would abound,” the document said. ‘No Place To Go’ The brief marks the first time that documents obtained through a 14-month congressional investigation into allegations of climate misinformation by Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP have been cited in a climate accountability lawsuit. .

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

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C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

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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.” In a survey of teenage boys commissioned by CCDH, 45 percent agreed with the statement that “politicians are exaggerating the urgency of climate policies.”

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The Canadian Government Is Funding A Researcher Who Spent Years Denying Climate Science

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A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.