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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” 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. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Ben Lilliston from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy expects them to be a key arena for action on food at this year’s COP.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

To adapt the old saying, the best time to deliver such policies was a decade ago, the second best time is now. The fractionally more convincing critique of the cost of the net zero transition is that climate policy is somehow to blame for soaring gas prices. Like every great human endeavour this is a high stakes experiment.

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Climate Related Excerpts from the Ninth Democratic Primary Debate

Green Market Oracle

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. I went out to tech -- you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world. there has to be a heart to the policy to get this done. That's where most of the greenhouse. WARREN: Yes.