DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Although the press release is promisingly headlined as “ pathways to changing the minds of climate deniers ,” we remain skeptical that there’s any real way to change a denier’s mind. After all, if they were open to change, they wouldn’t be deniers!

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Read time: 4 mins This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It too is now threatened by climate change. By Michael Mann. I witnessed this firsthand.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Topics like climate change and pollution. Tags: climate change books environment books Christopher Leonard Rachel Maddow Platt, The Revelator. Horror,” wrote novelist and critic Douglas E. Winter, “is not a genre. It is an emotion.”. You know what else generates some horrifying emotions?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

One has been the escalating effects of climate change, which were the focus of the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit. Tags: Nationalism climate science denial extreme weather climate change Donald Trump Forest fires , floods and hurricanes are all rising in their frequency and severity.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2020

Increasingly, these meetings have become an opportunity for activists to push the fossil fuel industry towards more progressive positions on climate change, with resolutions aimed at everything from greater transparency over lobbying and emissions to forcing alignment with the Paris Agreement. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Thunberg was far from the first young person to speak up in an effort to hold the powerful accountable for their inaction on climate change, yet the recognition of her efforts come at a time when world leaders will have to decide whether — or with how much effort — they will tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Read time: 6 mins A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ), an international financial organization that serves as a bank for central banks around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years , but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Your customers say there is a climate emergency and want you to act. The largest opinion poll on climate change found two-thirds of people around the world believe we are in a "global emergency." Strikingly, the study found that in every country surveyed, most people are very concerned about climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Isle’s technology consultant Sylvia Schuster explains why she believes managing the effects of climate change requires urban transformation. European cities need to transform their infrastructure if they are to meet the emerging challenges posed by the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Technology pilots.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Over the years Pendley, a self-styled “ Sagebrush Rebel ,” has pushed for the wholesale divestment of public lands from federal control, denied the existence of climate change and the hole in the ozone layer, denigrated the press, and called illegal immigrants a “cancer,” among other radical, extremist positions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Tags: Hurricane Delta Hurricane Laura extreme weather Louisiana John Bel Edwards Trump Administration This selection of photos shows the devastating impact hurricanes have had primarily in Louisiana but also in Alabama and Florida, in an already difficult year beset by a pandemic and subsequent economic downturn. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Extreme heat is among the deadliest consequences of global warming, and a new study tallies just how deadly it could become if climate pollution continues unabated. Tags: extreme heat Climate Impact Lab infectious diseases Exxon Knew American Petroleum Institute

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline “The present trend in legislation will require substantial expenditures to reduce emissions and waste discharge for all facilities and reduce the impact on the environment of the products we sell.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Tags: auto alliance clean car standards world benchmarking alliance That study, released earlier this month by CDP and the World Benchmarking Alliance ( WBA ), looked at 25 leading auto manufacturers and graded each company on its overall alignment with the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 14, 2020

But what about the chronic condition of climate change? The resulting reduction in CO2 emissions from manufacturing and transportation has opened up a window to what a more sustainable world would look like if we took action to address climate change. How to challen the power of collective action for the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2020

Surgeons General, recently filed supporting briefs backing a youth climate lawsuit against the federal government because, like the current coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis poses “unprecedented threats to public health and safety.”. Tags: public health Juliana v. United States air pollution COVID-19 coronavirus

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. Tags: Green hydrogen blue hydrogen hydrogen council hydrogen fuel cells

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Read time: 5 mins The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Read time: 10 mins CNN ’s Wolf Blitzer kicked off a seven-hour long town hall on climate change with an unambiguous message of urgency on climate change. firms forecast roughly $1 trillion in climate-related hits to their bottom lines over the next five years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2020

Read time: 5 mins ExxonMobil is facing yet another lawsuit challenging the corporation’s allegedly deceptive behavior related to climate change. Tags: ExxonMobil Beyond Pesticides false advertising bp climate lawsuits naomi oreskes geoffrey supran The latest suit , filed May 15 in the D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Calls for dealing with climate change and environmental justice were elevated by president-elect Biden, who spoke about endangered communities in the last presidential debate and on his campaign website, calling for environmental justice and “rooting out the systemic racism in our laws, policies, institutions, and hearts.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Some climate deniers, including some with ties to the Heartland Institute and other organizations that have historically helped to create the false impression that there is sizeable scientific disagreement on climate change, also directly expressed support for the attackers and called for more violence.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If melting polar ice caps and a deforested Amazon seem too far away to be real, many consumers may soon get an up-close and personal taste of climate change in their coffee cups. Climate change seems to be driving the extreme weather in Brazil — and around the world. Coffee prices spike, thanks to climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Read time: 9 mins More Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive wildfires, monstrous storms, and other extremes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2021

oil industry — while also increasing the industry’s huge contribution to climate change. Tags: crude oil export ban fracking However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has helped hasten the financial demise of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hours. Tags: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Hurricane Laura oil spills National Response Center

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Read time: 10 mins Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QA non’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered, for decades: climate change. “

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying on climate change issues published a report today criticizing the pro-business lobbying and advocacy group for continuing to push for pro-fossil fuel policies despite recognizing that climate change is real. Read time: 5 mins A new campaign targeting the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

What We Can Measure, We Can Address To address this situation, a small group of colleagues and I have developed a group of indices and rankings over the past decade that measure the relative technological progress of nations, and the relative difficulty they face in addressing climate change and economic development at the same time.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage. degree climate change Paris Agreement climate litigation

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. These have already been used in Europe and in some other parts of the UK. ” “RFID technology is ideal in helping councils gauge household waste levels.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Statements from large business associations and opponents of climate action are twice as likely to be included in climate change coverage by national newspapers than pro-climate action messaging, according to a new study.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2021

Read time: 7 mins Americans support the steps taken by the Biden administration thus far to tackle climate change by large margins, according to a new poll. Tags: American Petroleum Institute Biden administration The widespread support comes as the White House and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

Lawsuits demanding accountability and action on the existential threat of climate change continue to take hold across the world with some significant new developments and new cases emerging over the past year, according to a new report on trends in global climate change litigation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

The White House is billing it as a “generational investment” that will lead to “transformational progress in our ability to tackle climate change.”. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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