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

DeSmogBlog

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.” Last year, he referred in his newsletter to the “supposed emergency of climate change that critics have lambasted as unfounded alarmism.”

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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 When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” degrees. “It

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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

Renewable Energy World

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org

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'We can end the climate wars': Can Australia's 'greenslide' election provide renewed momentum for COP27?

Business Green

Although Labor has refused to back a phase out of coal use or block the opening of new coal mines in Australia - which remains one of the world's biggest exporters of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel - the party has promised to adopt more ambitious emissions targets and turn the nation into a global renewable energy 'superpower'.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. References Aengenheyster, M.,

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

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.