DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The International Energy Agency has set out a vision for a major transformation of the global economy – here are its top conclusions. Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Oil and gas companies have a financial incentive to reduce their methane emissions, the IEA's update emphasises, given the gas is a key component in the production of natural gas and leakage results in less of the fossil fuel being brought to market.

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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 Scientists identify the missing ingredient for climate action: Political will. degrees Celsius (2.7 Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Truss did not meet any other political groups during her trip. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Jacobson’s Greenhouse-Gas-Free (GHGFREE) Teslas run on solar power, as does his home, built by BoneStructure. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Indeed, moments after the gavel went down in Paris amid much celebration, a number of questions arose, including how accountable countries will be to their commitments and whether there will be sufficient money to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change and move off of fossil fuels. What did our readers like?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They are the natural energy present in all forms ranging from sunlight, wind, waves, geothermal heat and tides. Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 What happens at COP26?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Redwood , a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, has described government measures to tackle global warming as “radical” and defended climate sceptics as misunderstood. In July, he tweeted that leadership candidates should not support shutting down “fossil fuel using industry” in the UK, saying this would “cripple” the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and gas wanes, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs, say the authors of a new report. degree-aligned oil and gas output pathway,” Newton said, referring to the 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Frustration with the banking industry is gaining currency - in particular, the sector's role in financing fossil fuels. The funding was dominated by four US banks - Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo - which together accounted for a quarter of all fossil-fuel financing since 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

In his spare time, David Levy, owner of Petrotechnologies, a company that makes specialty parts for the oil and gas industry, monitors the fossil fuel industry across southwest Louisiana from the sky. In fact, methane is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after entering the atmosphere.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fracking involves pumping water, chemicals and typically sand down an oil or gas well under high pressure to break open channels (fractures) in the reservoir rock trapping the deposit. Oil and gas do not travel easily through these shale formations, which is why they need to be fractured. economy still runs on fossil fuels.

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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. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit , which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Have a tip or idea?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

He also claimed an "American energy revolution is saving American families" by lowering electricity bills and pump prices, and that the US was on the "threshold of unlimited forms of energy", specifically naming natural gas, nuclear, LNG, and "clean coal". We couldn't care less about your party politics," she said.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Comment down below. The article was called ‘can the world kick its oil habit?’.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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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. And he is now in the process of putting real political power behind the climate crisis denial movement. ARC advisor Ramaswamy: ‘the climate change agenda is a hoax.’

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C Nuclear is also low-carbon, but expensive and politically problematic.)

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On Friday, the House Oversight Committee released the final report from its year-long investigation into fossil fuel industry disinformation. The result is the most damning indictment yet of the industry’s attempts to “greenwash” its public image while continuing to expand fossil fuel production and lobby against climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A group of Republican members of Congress are traveling to Glasgow, Scotland, in order to attend COP26, the United Nations’ international climate negotiations meant to galvanize global action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. million from the oil, gas, and mining industries throughout their elected careers. In 2009, Sen.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

reach global climate targets to limit global warming to 1.5 In a Thursday report, Energy Innovation, whose co-founder Sonia Aggarwal recently joined the White House climate policy team, laid out a policy pathway to hitting the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to keep warming below the most dangerous levels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The bill would earmark 40 percent of its funds for communities disproportionately affected by environmental pollution or climate change impacts, or those reliant on a fossil fuel-based industry for jobs and economic activity. It could also direct much-needed investment in economically and environmentally disadvantaged communities.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The largest systemic risk of them all, climate change, is driven by reckless investments in fossil fuels, exactly the kind of speculative activities Dodd-Frank was meant to end in order to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. which if built could make Biden’s carbon-free goal impossible.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

President Biden signed an executive order banning the import of Russian oil and gas on March 8, but activists around the world are calling for a more comprehensive break with fossil fuels, warning against replacing Russian fuels with a new drilling frenzy elsewhere. — President Biden (@POTUS) March 9, 2022.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. And the Green New Deal that I support, by the way, will create up to 20 million good-paying jobs as we move our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. But it is a transitional fuel.

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