DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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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 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Department of Justice to investigate whether Shell and other Big Oil companies’ “alleged campaigns of climate deception” may have violated federal law. Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” warned Shell executive Ged Davis in one newly uncovered document from 1989.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

It was the first major economy to put net zero in law by 2050 and it has also cut its existing emissions at the fastest rate in the G7 since 1990. To keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. Joe Tetlow is senior political adviser at Green Alliance.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The wave of net zero goals and commitments has rapidly increased since October 2018, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that in order to have a 50 per cent chance of keeping global warming below 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Some camps supported the reelection of populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. This is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit under Italian law. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. However, it is conceivable to care for the future generation because generations do over-lap.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Assembly is a network of social, environmental, and political groups that have banded together to oppose offshore oil drilling along Argentina’s Atlantic coast. The company’s stock immediately jumped by nearly 9 percent after the law was changed. When the law passed, the public reaction was immediate and intense.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained. So how do you go against that?” Shareholder activism has a ‘unique role’ in driving real climate action by Big Oil to cut emissions, experts say.

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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 It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Neil Record , chair of the IEA, is also chair of the GWPF’s campaign wing Net Zero Watch. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available. With hydrogen, we have the technology and the skills needed to give our energy sector the shake-up it needs to meet our goals. Policy-driven benefits.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Penycook said he was "really pleased" to take on the role, adding that "our immediate focus is ensuring the national coronavirus effort succeeds but we cannot lose sight of climate breakdown and the collective response required this decade to avert runaway global warming". Tougher air laws and new clean air zones are needed now.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

In his spare time, Walker presents “The Lois and Andre Show”, a fringe YouTube series with Lois Perry, who has said that she does not believe in man-made global warming. We should allow people who are the victims of someone breaking the law to resolve it, so if you glue yourself to the M25, a lorry can run you over,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The case is represented by lawyers Luca Saltalamacchia, an expert in human and environmental rights protection; Raffaele Cesari, an expert in civil environmental law; and Michele Carducci, an expert in climate law from the University of Salento in Puglia.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Climate disavowal was already happening in pre-pandemic life, but the additional stressors associated with our country’s present situation — joblessness, food insecurity, political conflict, pandemic health concerns, social isolation — make it even harder to think about environmental responsibilities.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including Denmark's new climate law and the Australian mining sector's net zero pledge. global warming ambition, as its members predicted EU prices would average €32 per tonne over the next decade. Denmark agrees 'landmark' climate action law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Robinson Meyer puts this bill in context in The Atlantic , recalling the June day in 1988 when NASA scientist James Hansen first told a Senate committee that global warming wasn't a hypothesis - it was already underway. "It The result has been other political bodies acting within their own limited authority.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

The alarms that are being sounded on global warming, income inequality, and humanitarian crises are the result of materialistic greed. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Near-term emissions reduction is key Emissions reduction this decade is set to "largely determine" whether global warming can be limited to 1.5C Later this year, the UK is set to publish its third ever National Adaptation Programme which is designed to set out the "climate risks and opportunities" of 2C of global warming.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But according to a new briefing paper from the Center for International Environmental Law, even if all the planned DAC projects in the world get built and operate at full capacity, they would be capable of removing just 4.7 percent of current global energy sector emissions. million metric tons of CO2 in 2030, equivalent to a mere 0.01

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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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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense. Because of global warming, our natural environment is also hotter and drier than ever before, making fires caused by failed power lines more likely and extreme.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most important issue in the case was whether the Clean Air “completely preempted” state law claims. I remain skeptical that the Court is as apolitical as justices of all political stripes would have us believe, but I certainly think that the 10 th Circuit got it right and I would both hope and expect SCOTUS to agree.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. So why are people in America producing so much more global warming-driving CO 2 per person than the French, the British, and the Germans? I know my people.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

A good indication is the accelerating pace corporate commitments to 100% renewable energy (through the group RE100 ), setting science-based targets (more than 740 companies now), and pursuing the most aggressive carbon reductions in order to hold global warming to 1.5 Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. In a politically polarized society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes.

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