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Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases

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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Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 17, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Oil companies have long been aware that their products cause global warming and the impacts, including from rising seas, could be catastrophic. Tags: sea level rise coastal flooding #ExxonKnew ExxonMobil shell #ShellKnew climate lawsuits

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Membership Income Triples for UK’s Main Climate Science Denial Campaign Group

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2020

Read time: 3 mins In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), the UK ’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20 percent.

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European Thinktanks Repeating ‘Well-worn’ US Climate Denial Tropes

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tags: global warming policy foundation institute of economic affairs Centre for Policy Studies Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie Instituto Juan de Mariana Austrian Economics Centre

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These Climate Science Deniers are Spreading Misinformation about the Australian Bushfires

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Tags: infowars Newswars alex jones myron ebell patrick michaels Tony Abbott global warming policy foundation christopher monckton rupert murdoch

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How the Climategate Email Hack Laid the Foundations for the Fake News Era

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Fred Singer Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Benny Peiser institute of economic affairs Tags: Climategate Nigel Lawson Christopher Monkton S. Read time: 8 mins DeSmog UK ’s first editor, Brendan Montague, shares his personal experience of investigating climate science deniers at the time of Climategate.

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The Hunt for Fugitive Emissions in the Permian’s Oilfields

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2020

She supports her employer’s efforts to encourage tougher industry regulations, but believes that humankind needs to keep oil and gas in the ground if there is any chance of meeting the benchmarks set by the Paris Climate Accord to limit global warming. .

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Automakers Accelerating Climate Change, Failing to Put the Brakes on Emissions

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Read time: 5 mins Automakers are failing to drive a rapid shift towards low-carbon transport, according to a new analysis , indicating that the industry is not aligned with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C. Tags: auto alliance clean car standards world benchmarking alliance

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The Imperial Oil Files: New Collection Adds to Climate and Energy Research Archives On Science and Denial

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Those journalistic efforts exposed the facts that Exxon’s own climate science research had confirmed the role of fossil fuels in driving global warming, and that the company pivoted away from that advanced knowledge, choosing instead to spend tens of millions of dollars funding climate science denial campaigns.

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From the BP Spill to a Disappearing Island: A Decade of Covering Climate and the Environment in Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The state's role in the oil and gas industry impacts both global markets and global climate change. It’s also on the front line of climate change impacts due to sea level rise and is vulnerable to storm systems intensified by global warming. Tags: BP oil disaster Isle de Jean Charles Louisiana cancer alley

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Blame Sunspots: Climate Science Denial Continues at Shale Gas Pipeline Industry Conference

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

John Cook, lead author of that study, described this summer a 99 percent scientific consensus that humans cause global warming. Tags: Mark Mathis clear energy alliance Marcellus shale climate science denial

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Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Environmental advocates call it a conflict of interest that is undercutting Palo Alto’s commitment to curbing global warming. Tags: Palo Alto American Public Gas Association Gas Industry gas utility building electrification Earthjustice Climate Investigations Center

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Opinion: We Owe Greta and the Youth More Than a Nobel Prize

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

They need grown-ups to take them seriously and heed the scientific evidence about global warming. Tags: Greta Thunberg School Strikes climate strikes nobel peace prize Ethiopia Greta and the young people worldwide urging adults to care about their future don't need a Nobel.

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The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While carbon dioxide — deservedly — gets a bad rap when it comes to climate change, about 40 percent of global warming actually can be attributed to the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to the 2013 IPCC report. Tags: methane fracking venting emissions Dr. Robert Howarth American Petroleum Institute

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Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Tags: climate science denial Heartland Institute cornwall alliance ross mckitrick frank luntz

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DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In those early years, we focused most of our attention on the merchants of doubt who were scuttling political action to address global warming in the United States. . Tags: Climategate climate science denial Copenhagen Climate Summit

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As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Tags: hurricanes and global warming extreme weather Caribbean green new deal As the National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that Hurricane Dorian's core was “finally moving away from Grand Bahama Island,” toward the Southeastern U.S.

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Is Reclaimed Water the Key to More Energy?

Green Living Guy

MARCH 28, 2022

That’s why hair dryers have huge tags on them warning consumers about electric shock and why some people won’t shower during a thunderstorm. Because of the minerals and natural chemicals dissolved in water, it’s an excellent conductor for electricity. However, water is also used to create energy.

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As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

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How Technology Can Combat the Rising Tide of Fake Science

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2020

Scientists are in almost complete agreement that people are the primary cause of global warming. Tags: Misinformation scientific literary climate misinformation artificial intelligence Pseudo-Science On the other hand, Americans are surrounded by a rising tide of misinformation and fake science. Take climate change.

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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I'm talking about geoengineering, and specifically solar geoengineering , which seeks to lessen global warming's greenhouse effect by reflecting sunlight, and heat, back out to space.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Roll out a New Era of Spin

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It is republished here as part of DeSmog's partnership with Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Tags: Covering Climate Now 2019 fracking advertising spin ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) bp

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Interview: Climategate Felt Like a Disaster, But Climate Science Is Now Stronger Than Ever

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

He remembers thinking that it was all much ado about nothing: a coordinated PR campaign by climate deniers to discredit the science of global warming. . Tags: Climategate Bob Brulle robert brulle climate science climate science denial In some sense, his prediction would be proven correct. .

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Save the Earth IRL by playing Pokmon Go during Sustainability Week

AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2021

But the Pocket Monsters, as they’re known in Japan, live alongside humans in the wild, so they, too, have a stake in sustainability and global warming. Pokémon Go’s Sustainability Week is linked with the Niantic Sustainability Campaign to protect the environment and raise awareness of global warming.

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'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

But if emissions are allowed to continue rising and the planet is forced to steel itself for almost 4C of global warming by the end of the century, they conclude the UK faces a huge GDP hit of at least 3.3 per cent by 2100, thanks to both physical impacts and the global socio-economic disruption wrought by rolling climate crises.

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The great EV armament has begun

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. global warming trajectory.

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Overnight Briefing - The great EV armament has begun

Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. global warming trajectory.

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'Need for Feed': Why the farming industry needs to give animal feed a green refresh

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The report suggests that embracing more sustainable practices at the level of feed-production could play a crucial role in limiting global warming, while also addressing other major issues such as land use change, deforestation, and falling biodiversity - all of which are impacted by feed production.

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'Need for Feed': Why the farming industry needs to give animal feed a green refresh

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The report suggests that embracing more sustainable practices at the level of feed-production could play a crucial role in limiting global warming, while also addressing other major issues such as land use change, deforestation, and falling biodiversity - all of which are impacted by feed production.

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Is this it? Are we at risk of over-estimating the neo-climate sceptics?

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Perhaps the most pertinent forerunner to this campaign is not Brexit, but the various campaigns previously pedalled by Baker's friends at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the accompanying network of 'free market' think tanks and media titles.

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How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The article also neglects to mention the far higher costs of unmitigated climate change set out in the OBR's analysis, and as such found favour from former Brexit Secretary Steve Baker MP, now of climate sceptic think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation. ??

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Curriculum , Environmental Literacy , Environmental Principles and Concepts. Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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The climate crisis is a crime story

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Internal records showed that by the late 1970s, Exxon’s own scientists were briefing its top executives that man-made global warming was real, potentially catastrophic, and caused mainly by burning fossil fuels. Their aim was “to reposition global warming as theory, not fact,” one planning document stated.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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Girl Scouts Camp Trivera combines STEM and sustainable architecture

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We have also identified several 100- to 200-year-old trees on the property that will be tagged and protected as a learning opportunity for girls. Curriculum lessons also include information about soil contamination, agriculture, global warming and noise pollution, in addition to other topics.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S. If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior.

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Closet environmentalist: How you can help.

Rinexii

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If anyone asks why you’re doing this, just point out the price tag. Second hand stores such as goodwill are packed with high end clothing for a fraction of the cost, and it has an added benefit—second hand clothing doesn’t have the same carbon footprint new clothing does, and keeps that piece out of landfills.

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Amy Coney Barrett’s Remarks on Climate Change Raise Alarm That a Climate Denier Is About to Join the Supreme Court

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2020

I don’t think that my views on global warming or climate change are relevant to the job I would do as a judge,” Barrett said, adding, “I haven’t studied scientific data. I’m not really in a position to offer any informed opinion on what I think causes global warming.”.

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2019 in Photos: Impacts from Environmental Rollbacks and the Growing Climate Activism

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Read time: 7 mins Here is a selection of photos I shot for DeSmog in 2019, another year when arguably not enough collective action was taken to protect the planet from global warming. . Tags: Greta Thunberg Donald Trump petrochemical development Coalition Against Death Alley cancer alley

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California Communities Argue Their Climate Liability Suits Are Based on Fossil Fuel Disinformation Campaigns

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Opposing arguments by an attorney representing Chevron as well as a Department of Justice lawyer failed to defend against this core allegation, and instead claimed that global warming broadly is an issue of federal concern that requires federal rather than state court jurisdiction. United States Trump Administration #ExxonKnew

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Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary 'Planet of The Humans'

DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2020

Tags: Michael Moore Planet of the Humans Jeff Gibbs Heartland Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Koch Family Foundations Donald Trump Michael Shellenberger James Delingpole myron ebell institute for energy research andrew bolt breitbart Daily Caller

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Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Greta Thunberg arron banks nigel farage Brexit Party Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Heartland Institute Charles G Koch Charitable Foundation steve milloy Ezra Levant rebel media marc morano Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) Covering Climate Now 2019 Tags: School Strikes.

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Transportation Climate Initiative Draws Opposition from Oil and Gasoline Business Groups

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

This is a program designed to reduce global warming emissions,” explained Daniel Gatti, policy analyst in the Clean Vehicles program at Union of Concerned Scientists. Tags: tci transportation climate initiative big oil regional greenhouse gas initiative

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Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases

Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily

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Membership Income Triples for UK’s Main Climate Science Denial Campaign Group

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European Thinktanks Repeating ‘Well-worn’ US Climate Denial Tropes

These Climate Science Deniers are Spreading Misinformation about the Australian Bushfires

How the Climategate Email Hack Laid the Foundations for the Fake News Era

The Hunt for Fugitive Emissions in the Permian’s Oilfields

Automakers Accelerating Climate Change, Failing to Put the Brakes on Emissions

The Imperial Oil Files: New Collection Adds to Climate and Energy Research Archives On Science and Denial

From the BP Spill to a Disappearing Island: A Decade of Covering Climate and the Environment in Louisiana

Blame Sunspots: Climate Science Denial Continues at Shale Gas Pipeline Industry Conference

Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

Opinion: We Owe Greta and the Youth More Than a Nobel Prize

The Fracking Industry's Methane Problem Is a Climate Problem

Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home

DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going

As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?

Is Reclaimed Water the Key to More Energy?

As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

How Technology Can Combat the Rising Tide of Fake Science

Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry

Fossil Fuel Companies Roll out a New Era of Spin

Interview: Climategate Felt Like a Disaster, But Climate Science Is Now Stronger Than Ever

Save the Earth IRL by playing Pokmon Go during Sustainability Week

'Net zero is a no regret policy': How climate action could boost UK GDP by 9.1 per cent

The great EV armament has begun

Overnight Briefing - The great EV armament has begun

'Need for Feed': Why the farming industry needs to give animal feed a green refresh

'Need for Feed': Why the farming industry needs to give animal feed a green refresh

Is this it? Are we at risk of over-estimating the neo-climate sceptics?

How much will net zero cost the UK? The OBR tries answering the trillion-pound question

Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

The climate crisis is a crime story

Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

Girl Scouts Camp Trivera combines STEM and sustainable architecture

What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule

Closet environmentalist: How you can help.

Amy Coney Barrett’s Remarks on Climate Change Raise Alarm That a Climate Denier Is About to Join the Supreme Court

2019 in Photos: Impacts from Environmental Rollbacks and the Growing Climate Activism

California Communities Argue Their Climate Liability Suits Are Based on Fossil Fuel Disinformation Campaigns

Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary 'Planet of The Humans'

Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism

Transportation Climate Initiative Draws Opposition from Oil and Gasoline Business Groups

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