DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” 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

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

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 Even then, it was an aspirational goal: One writer referred to it as both “ necessary and inaccessible.”. degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees.). “It

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. It is also referred to as the Paris Accords.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The IEA declined to comment on BP funding, referring DeSmog to the “ who funds you ” section on its website, which does not name donors. A 2018 investigation by Greenpeace Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil giant BP every year since 1967. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. xxii-xxiii; Rentmeester, 81-82).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here are all the references to climate change from the Canadian federal leaders English Language debate that took place on October 7, 2019. We need to support the rule of law and human rights around the world because we are world leaders. We must go off fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and you bought a pipeline.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2023

But some critics contend that the federal government’s involvement in this new climate technology is giving fossil fuel companies cover, allowing them to create the impression that they are part of the transition to greener energy while they continue to focus most of their activities and money on their core oil and gas businesses. “Oxy

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. Meyer is referring to the “ Big 4 ” meatpackers — JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill, and Marfrig — all of which are members of NCBA.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects. hydrogen lobbies.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Some have promised to lower emissions intensity, which allows them to keep burning fossil fuels as long as they also build zero-emission plants. But the roster includes some of the biggest names in renewables development, showing that it’s possible to invest big in renewables while hoping to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the ” Carbon Law ,” which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical “law” of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? That’s not all.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. Massachusetts v.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. It is a category of fuel oils with a tar-like consistency identified as a "worse case substance".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

This story was originally published by The Guardian , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. Exxon has, in addition, targeted an environmental lawyer in Boston, Matthew Pawa, who represents some of the California municipalities.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

By the closing credits, the viewer is left in little doubt that there is only one fuel plentiful and versatile enough to carry the world “safely” into the 21 st century: coal. Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 The law’s current implementation also offers no assurances that the new jobs promised for oil and gas industry workers will materialize, although it is a stated goal of the law.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

The ban does not currently affect motorcycles, but the government has held a public consultation , which concluded in September, on extending this ban to new fossil fuel bikes and mopeds. The presentation references several climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch , CFACT , and the Heritage Foundation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

“In order to combat the climate crisis and meet our clean energy goals, we must transition away from fossil fuels and change the way gas utilities do business in our state,” Healey said in a statement. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

She did it patiently and incisively, referring to her role in her ACLU cases as “a kind of a kindergarten teacher… because the judges didn’t think sex discrimination existed.” The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Trump signed it into law. That number, about 0.1%

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Conservative author and fossil fuel activist Alex Epstein had a modest YouTube following of 15.2 She didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog. It’s out!”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“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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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

It is that last goal - the promise of renewed and effective institutions - that is suddenly in sharp focus, as many of the world's leading economies endure a crash course in how vulnerable many of their institutions have become to global shocks. "One In Smith's view, many of the fundamental aims of SDG16 are being seriously challenged.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

But over the next few weeks or months, a methane fee has a real chance of being signed into law by the President. Scientists say urgent and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed to slow the rate of global warming, and slashing methane offers one of the most immediate and impactful ways of achieving this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

A huge banner hung ceremoniously behind a table in a room lined with chairs, entitled “Signing Of Production Sharing Agreement,” referring to the crucial legislation that would start the resource sharing process. The deal was all but signed. Opposition politicians reacted to the deal falling through with relief, as well as concern.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

You can do that through budget reconciliation law. SANDERS: [W]e will address the catastrophic crisis of climate change and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel. BIDEN: I refuse to postpone any longer taking on climate change and leading the world in taking on climate change.legislation that saves the planet.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

Here is a comprehensive summary of references to climate change from the CNN/Des Moines Register Democratic debate at Drake University on January 14th 2020. Here are the candidates references to climate change in the order that they appeared during the debate. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen.

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