DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies. government.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Although the high temperatures experienced in the last five years could be temporary, there is a cause for alarm if global warming continues at the current rate. According to the UN, the world has about a 25% chance of experiencing a year of temperatures hot enough to push global temperatures past the 1.5°C limit before 2030.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At just 11, I thought I could stop global warming, so I created a blog with articles urging people, "Save the polar bears." The fact is, polar bears were (and still are) drowning due to global problems. Perhaps they eat organic, use public transportation, recycle or take military-style showers. The tigers.matter, too!

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the past, content that falsely claimed that climate change was either not happening or not a result of humans burning fossil fuels dominated disinformation channels. Fortunately, renewable energy is already a cheaper alternative to fossil fuel power plants and can help prevent deaths linked to the effects of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

billion in new subsidies to oil and gas companies, and other heavy emitters, for expanding the production of fossil fuels, according to climate experts. We need to keep in mind that this is about reducing emissions and not reducing production,” the organization said last year in a separate submission, as revealed by DeSmog. “We

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Agriculture and farming also affect global warming. Farmers who work on irrigation efficiency can reduce fossil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable energy : Shifting away from fossil fuels is the best thing to do. It is time the impact is reduced to preserve the earth for generations to come.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. It is a big business.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? The first report on global warming that was handed to a U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this is something that we in our maps and geo organization, we’ve built up a lot of expertise,” Yael Maguire, vice president and general manager of Google’s Geo Sustainability team, said on a press call. “We It’s just training AI to spot well pads, pump jacks, storage tanks, and other fossil fuel infrastructure instead.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This story originally appeared in AGU’s Eos Magazine and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. In contrast, if we don’t limit global warming to below 2°C, 5 million fewer energy jobs will be created. Calls for just transitions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. But California is the first fossil-fuel-producing state to do so. History in the making….

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

The Pathways Alliance is a marketing and lobbying organization representing the country’s six largest oil sands producers: Imperial Oil, Suncor, ConocoPhillips, Cenovus, CNRL and MEG. This isn’t the first instance of oil sands companies using Google search to shape public perception about the industry’s environmental record.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From repeated calls for a fossil fuel “phase out” to campaigns to regulate the oil and gas industry, pressure against Big Oil is stronger than ever and isn’t only coming from outside. Oil and Gas Playbook vs. Shareholder Activism In the face of increasing shareholder activism, fossil fuel companies are resistant.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. The institute’s last big mailout was in 2017 when it sent out 350,000 copies of its “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.” It almost seems quaint that they’re still running with this.

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Grist

MAY 9, 2024

And because of its depth and northern latitude, the water here is about as cold as corals can tolerate, essentially protecting the Flower Garden Banks from global warming. Every year, the living coral organism lays down a new growth band, using the nutrients and minerals it pulls out of the seawater.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The UK’s Climate Innovation Forum named global PR agency Weber Shandwick as its “ official communications partner ,” despite the agency recently holding or continuing to hold contracts with at least eight oil and gas companies, an oil financier, and an industry lobby group. degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate change. Now, a new report shows that fossil fuel production by 2030 is set to exceed the level that would be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And energy providers the world over are rushing to slash their reliance on fossil fuels as the clean energy transition gathers pace. Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. Anyone doubting the seriousness of the campaign needs only look at the team behind it. It is a big business.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. Their demand is somewhat understandable. But for the most part, scientists have been ignored.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

But even though natural gas is a major growing source of emissions in the country (Canada is the world’s fourth largest producer of the fossil fuel), the article didn’t once mention climate change, nor the potentially severe health impacts from breathing in gas fumes. And they’re pulling out all the stops.”.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It’s all part of countries’ combined efforts to limit global warming to the Paris agreement target of roughly 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, a goal the World Health Organization says could prevent millions of climate change-related deaths. But power grids aren’t keeping up, and it puts that 1.5-degree

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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. million (five million euros) for misleading consumers with “green” claims in a diesel fuel ad campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. carbon budget, an estimate of the maximum amount of carbon dioxide emissions that can be emitted before tipping the planet into dangerous levels of global heating.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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.” based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The critically urgent transition to a just and science-based clean energy system continues to suffer at the hands of well-funded operatives and organizations working to undermine progress and prolong global dependency on fossil fuels. and the world.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A business can then consider all the aspects of their business that produce carbon, including fossil fuels , land clearance and the production and consumption of food, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Overall, deaths from these so-called “modern” forms of pollution — pollution that’s associated with industrialization, the use of fossil fuels, and chemical exposure — have increased by more than 66 percent over the past two decades. Air pollution is by far the deadliest culprit, causing more than 6.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s. They were instructed to stress the “many uncertainties” associated with stopping global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The UN’s expert climate science organization has criticised the “vested interests” obstructing efforts to cut emissions for the first time this week. While fossil fuels companies and industry are responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, the latest IPCC report doesn’t directly name any polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets.

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