DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.". Fossil-fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. degrees Celsius. Flashing red lights. The implications?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. Business action, supported by government regulations, investments and incentives, is absolutely critical for transitioning to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

The report is used by governments and industries everywhere to understand the threats ahead. The purpose of these reports is to provide everyone, particularly governing bodies, with the information they need to make important decisions regarding climate change. The IPCC doesn’t tell governments what to do. It’s a big deal.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It highlights examples of nature-based solutions beyond tree-planting including the establishment of wetlands to manage storm-water and flooding, and the restoration of mangrove forests and oyster reefs to protect coastal communities, agriculture and infrastructure from the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are proud to see that our data is empowering governments as they evaluate national climate risks; it’s providing the agricultural sector critical with insights into crop health; it’s revealing species dynamics in biodiverse ecosystems; and it’s informing the public on the global energy transition. SkySat image of Malé in the Maldives.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This newly discovered document pinpoints the earliest-known moment that carbon-dioxide-induced climate change was brought to the attention of the highest levels of U.S. government — the President. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Credit: Lyndon B.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

“We call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments are willing to fulfill their responsibilities in good faith,” they wrote. The researchers call it a “moratorium,” but perhaps it’s better described as a strike — a refusal to persist in basic scientific research until governments of the world get their act together.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2021

Now, the boot is losing a football field of land every hour to the rising tide. In order to save the state from sea-level rise, the Louisiana state government is embarking on a series of years-long, multi-billion dollar projects to slow the rate of land loss. This month, the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and that this warming has “ unequivocally ” been caused by human activities , primarily burning fossil fuels. report from October found that countries’ climate policies and planned fossil fuel projects would cause nearly 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees C (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

” One central finding of the new analysis is that the Paris accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels is in serious danger as policymakers fail to take the necessary steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. .”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Other links across the Atlantic include the Atlas Network , a fossil fuel-linked US think tank that works with UK libertarians , to the GWPF receiving money from its US “Friends of GWPF” fundraising arm. Fossil Fuel Links. The event is the latest example of UK and US groups working together to oppose climate action.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2021

A threat that was still in the future, with consequences happening somewhere else, with melting poles, small island communities affected by sea level rise or drought in the global south, far away from our robust, modern societies. It's not just a government issue. This will require increased efforts from all of us.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022. Climate Liability Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Make Key Advances. Supreme Court’s limitation of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Seven years ago the IEA and the WRI warned that we need to stop burning fossil fuels. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming. A 2019 IPCC report warned that we are seeing accelerated ice melt and sea level rise.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that are poisoning our air and our water. The disinformation efforts of fossil fuel companies include denying children access to a science based education.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Davies noted that fossil fuel interests were conducting operations of their own. At the same time, fossil fuel companies have worked to insulate themselves from extreme weather.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Government scientist Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) replies, “Scientists never like to say 100%.”. The evidence is overwhelming that Earth’s climate is changing in dangerous ways because of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, and it has been overwhelming for many years. In the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago , they did everything they could to hide it. But that doesn’t mean climate deniers — fossil fuel companies, lobbyists, and their allies opposed to climate action — have moved past the lies. household income. .

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

But just days earlier, the topic generated extensive debate when Parmesan and her coauthors went over their findings with government representatives from around the world. Not to mention the possibility of losing entire nations and cultures to the sea, or the mass loss of human life from a world with more dangerous heat waves and storms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Global temperature rise is just one measure of how the climate is changing. Scientists also track concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, sea-level rise and the intensity of heatwaves and flooding. Only stopping global temperature rise well below 1.5C Acceptable for who? At 1.5C, few reefs will escape harm.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

government had set a monopoly-busting standard for future generations. As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. David had slayed Goliath.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Australia looks set to ditch its climate-laggard global status after voters strongly backed more ambitious green policies – but can the change in government help reignite global climate action, as geopolitical challenges escalate? Moreover, the Coalition government has long been a thorn in the side of successive UN climate talks.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

As Scientific American noted : "For the first time in history, a court … ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its planet-warming pollution.". Fossil fuel companies are likely seeing flashing red lights about now. Flashing red lights. The implications? And it's not just climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

above pre-industrial levels, and is likely to be reach 1.5C - the optimal target set out in the Paris Agreement - within the next 20 years regardless of potential actions taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the meantime. Our message to every country, government, business and part of society is simple," he said.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The wanton burning of fossil fuels, new agricultural methods, chemical manufacturing and production processes have all contributed to unprecedented pollution that is poisoning our air and our water. The disinformation efforts of fossil fuel companies include denying children access to a science based education.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

The consequences of that imbalance are felt in water cycle disruptions, sea-level rises, far stronger storms and the spread of tropical diseases northward, he noted. We now know that the burning of fossil fuels is a precondition for higher mortality rates under COVID-19.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 3, 2020

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the U.S. The economic merits of renewable energy already provide far more jobs than the fossil fuel industry. According to the U.K.’s Because it's coming."

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Moreover, the poll findings released today suggest the overwhelming majority of Conservative Party members - 85 per cent - support government incentives and investment to help homeowners and landlords improve home insulation and energy efficiency.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They all support zero-emissions, carbon-neutral electricity, the electrification of transportation and ending federal fossil fuel subsidies. Many want to end tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry and/or increase taxation on the wealthy. He wants to transition away from fossil fuels and immediately ban energy extraction.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The central message from the latest review of climate science is remarkably bleak: The world is running out of time to stabilise global temperatures at relatively safe levels, with current policies and levels of investment nowhere near sufficient to secure a liveable future for all.

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