Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 Nature (2021). The future of natural gas is a bit more complicated. But that also means the results are based on an idealized world free of politics. C scenario.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It was a tough call to select the highlights, but here you have my Editor’s pick of our Top 10 – in no particular order – chosen for going deep, originality, capturing the political moment, scoring victories for the climate movement or straight-up popularity…. North Sea Gas Profits Going Direct to the Kremlin.

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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 Scientists identify the missing ingredient for climate action: Political will. degrees Celsius (2.7 Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. Truss did not meet any other political groups during her trip. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said. I'm determined that political differences will not impact on #COP26. That's why we are pledged here in the UK to deliver net zero by 2050. Similarly, there was a 3.7

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Jacob justification is a cost benefit analysis whereby the external costs of coal, natural gas and oil far exceed the investment costs for WWS.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Our academics also explained why energy innovation is so slow , what to do about earthquakes linked to oil and gas drilling, why Tesla’s home batteries are such a big deal and how rooftop solar is disrupting the power grid. Also in politics and policy, we covered the link between the climate change-worsened drought in Syria and its civil war.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The International Energy Agency has set out a vision for a major transformation of the global economy – here are its top conclusions. Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. A 'wake-up call' for natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.” Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.”

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

In a speech in Glasgow to mark six months since the landmark UN Climate Summit, the COP26 President conceded the Kremlin's "illegal and brutal" war, rising inflation, and cost of living concerns had dominated the political and media agenda in 2022, but stressed that climate action must remain a top priority for governments around the world.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A major United Nations report from 2018 charted out what it would take to reach that goal: reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course. And yet the Paris Agreement manages to omit the words coal, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

"Our new Global Methane Tracker shows that some progress is being made but that emissions are still far too high and not falling fast enough - especially as methane cuts are among the cheapest options to limit near-term global warming," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol. There is just no excuse.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. That agreement set the goal of limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), and preferably to 1.5 What happens at COP26?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the major advantages for using the Biofuel is that they are renewable energy and don not lead to global warming unlike the fossil fuels. It firmly associated with environmental monetary science, however contains a great deal of politically connected core interest.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Redwood , a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, has described government measures to tackle global warming as “radical” and defended climate sceptics as misunderstood. Earlier this year, he called for the UK to resume fracking, a drilling technology used for extracting oil and natural gas from rocks deep underground.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

There are tens of thousands of known orphaned oil and gas wells in the United States and thousands of abandoned wells that were never properly plugged that are leaking methane and emitting other toxins that threaten the environment and contribute to global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

degree-aligned oil and gas output pathway,” Newton said, referring to the 1.5 degree Fahrenheit) limit to global warming that an international panel of scientists says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change. And it can’t just be a politician touting the need to involve workers for the sake of political expediency.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Fracking involves pumping water, chemicals and typically sand down an oil or gas well under high pressure to break open channels (fractures) in the reservoir rock trapping the deposit. Oil and gas do not travel easily through these shale formations, which is why they need to be fractured. When I hear global warming, I think jobs.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

RAN says that over the next two months, six Wall Street banks are expected to face shareholder resolutions calling on them to stop financing fossil-fuel expansion and otherwise align their business practices with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Gas is not as easily transportable as oil. Pipelines further entrench energy dependence and are indicative of how susceptible gas is to being monopolized.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

He also claimed an "American energy revolution is saving American families" by lowering electricity bills and pump prices, and that the US was on the "threshold of unlimited forms of energy", specifically naming natural gas, nuclear, LNG, and "clean coal". We couldn't care less about your party politics," she said.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. And he is now in the process of putting real political power behind the climate crisis denial movement. ARC advisor Ramaswamy: ‘the climate change agenda is a hoax.’

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. They consume approximately 14.5%

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In an internal memo published by the committee, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute , Mike Sommers , writes that publicizing the industry’s paltry efforts to reduce emissions from natural gas production presents “an opportunity to further secure the industry’s license to operate. ” They’d be wise not to celebrate too soon.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C The new assessment, like its predecessor Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C Nuclear is also low-carbon, but expensive and politically problematic.) The infrastructure bill.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the same time, climate change has begun directly impacting utilities — from hurricanes that have forced billions in recovery and grid-hardening costs for utilities like NextEra’s Florida Power & Light and Texas’s Oncor, to the wildfires that drove Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy. Today, no U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

McKinley (R-WV) who in 2016 — just a year after the Paris Agreement was negotiated at COP21 to limit global warming to 2°C (3.6°F) F) — said he thought the majority of climate change was “naturally occurring” and not due to human activity like burning fossil fuels. This includes David B. Garret Graves (R-LA) in 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Joe Biden: (14:47) Climate change, global warming is an existential threat to humanity. Frankly, I don’t even know how it can be good politically. Kristen Welker: (14:41) Vice President Biden- Donald Trump: (14:41) And we haven’t destroyed our industries. We have a moral obligation to deal with it. This wasn’t done by anybody.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

reach global climate targets to limit global warming to 1.5 In a Thursday report, Energy Innovation, whose co-founder Sonia Aggarwal recently joined the White House climate policy team, laid out a policy pathway to hitting the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to keep warming below the most dangerous levels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” 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. Residents packed public meetings and staged beachfront rallies.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

“The stars have aligned politically for this in this moment,” Jeff Schub, executive director of the Coalition for Green Capital, told Greentech Media. Democrats now hold a slender majority in both houses of Congress.

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