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Heritage Foundation Hosts UK Climate Science Denier at Event Opposing ‘Green Energy’

DeSmogBlog

The Heritage Foundation panel event on December 8, called “ Lessons for America from Europe’s Green Energy Disaster ”, featured Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. It’s not a conservative agenda, in fact it’s a socialist agenda.”.

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Trump’s exit might not be the Paris Agreement’s biggest problem

Grist

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. So, with the U.S.

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

Grist

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 In short, even if countries were to defy their history of delay and act heroically quickly to boost clean energy, the odds are that it won’t be enough.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California's Cinnamon Energy Systems. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets. In all likelihood it will get worse as we experience more extreme weather events and sea levels rise from melting ice sheets.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

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

Renewable Energy World

The new assessment, like its predecessor Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C C , shows that minimizing future climate change and its most damaging impacts will require transitioning quickly away from fossil fuels and moving instead to renewable, sustainable energy sources such as wind, solar and tidal power.