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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. In 2001, an ExxonMobil press release argued that there was “no consensus about long-term climate trends and what causes them.” Grist / Jessie Blaeser. Spencer Platt / Getty Images.

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Kemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group

DeSmogBlog

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). He has now donated more than £600,000 to the Conservatives and its candidates since 2001.

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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

DeSmogBlog

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer has also donated £8.8

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Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim

DeSmogBlog

Equinor has not captured 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year at the site since 2001, according to the data, provided by the Norwegian Environment Agency. At least 480 carbon capture lobbyists attended the latest annual UN climate conference in Azerbaijan in November, according to the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

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 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., They are our lighthouse.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

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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Europe’s energy transition is a ‘prisoner of rules’ created for 2050 scenarios

Smart Energy International

By her own admission she has “been around the block a couple of times”: she was a member of the Dutch Energy Council for 10 years, was a guest researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and also Chatham House among others, and has been director of CIEP since 2001.

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