DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s. They were instructed to stress the “many uncertainties” associated with stopping global warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Crosby ran four Conservative Party election campaigns between 2005 and 2017, and was involved in the 2019 campaign.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010. He was also recently appointed as a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 Such marketing has not only focused on making meat seem climate-friendly but has also worked to demonise plant-based alternatives, the report found.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 27, 2020

He was chair or co-chair of the IPCC’s scientific assessment working group until 2002 and lead editor of the first 3 IPCC reports. In 2002, American evangelical lobbyist Richard Cizik heard him speak on the evidence for global warming. In 1988, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Lord Hintze is also one of the few known donors to the GWPF, while official records show that he has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

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.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Global deaths from the disease declined by 27 percent between 2002 and 2021, as countries have adopted insecticide-treated nets, antimalarial drugs, and tests. Researchers found malaria cases in the highlands of Ethiopia fell in the early 2000s in tandem with a decline in temperatures as global warming temporarily stalled.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

of forest areas burned in the boreal forests between 2002 and 2018. Scientists have now warned that continued global warming may lead to increased damage from zombie fires. Related: Wildfires made air quality worse in 2020, despite lockdowns According to the study, zombie fires were responsible for about 0.8%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

An archived page from Fullbrook Strategies’ website lists both Crosby and Michael Hintze , a hedge fund manager who has donated over £4m to the Conservative Party since 2002, as sitting on its advisory board. A veteran political strategist, Fullbrook was appointed chief of staff by Truss after she took over as prime minister last month.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the Cabinet since 2010, and the think tank continues to retain vast influence in Westminster. Meanwhile, the chair of the Policy Exchange board is Alexander Downer, who served as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But there was reason to hope for Milne Fjord: For years, scientists believed this area, home to the oldest and thickest ice in the northern hemisphere, would survive the worst effects of global warming. Even if we do manage to limit global warming to the goal of 1.5 degrees C (2.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

While this presents a significant opportunity for the UK to contribute to global efforts against global warming, reaching this target won't become a reality unless the energy sector receives the collaboration it needs from government and stakeholders to remove existing technical obstacles and regulatory barriers.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. In 2002, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

In a statement announcing the change, the body credited Simpson will playing a pivotal role in bringing corporate disclosure on climate and environmental issues into the mainstream, noting that disclosures on its platform had increased 53-fold since 2002 and by 141 per cent since 2015.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

” The study found that the number of dams in a 100-square-kilometer area around Kotzebue increased from two in 2002 to about 98 in 2019. The number of these structures doubles roughly every four years.” This is a staggering 5000% increase in the number of dams.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

Crowley was featured in a 2002 report from the Atlas Network, along with leaders of the Montreal Economic Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, which Atlas described as “some of the most effective young think tanks in the Atlas network.” The out-of-control fires, he wrote, “are probably not the result of global warming.”

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

The emerald ash borer, native to Asia, has been devouring ash trees from the Midwest to Pennsylvania since 2002, and the brown marmorated stink bug, also from Asia, has eaten its way through orchards in 43 states to date. Before coming to the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

But in an industry where the average number of times a garment is worn decreased by 36 percent from 2002 to 2017, garment recycling is a light of hope for many large fashion retailers.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. So I decided to become a teacher. Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. Early Kivalina Lawsuit. Luke Cole’s colleague Brent Newell, left, and Enoch Adams, Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

This framing exploits the negative connotation of the term “alarmist” in order to discredit a legitimate scientific warning, while trying to associate backers of fringe theories about, say, sunspots causing global warming, with rationality and realism.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. .”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2002, Sumatra's peatlands stored at least 18.8 Sumatra alone has seen 90 per cent of its rainforest destroyed or degraded, and between 1990 and 2002, around 1.1 It is precisely because peatland is usually waterlogged that the organic matter is prevented from rotting, and the CO2 escaping.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The report was produced by Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaigning wing of climate science denial thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which Mackinlay’s group is working with to oppose green policies. Its authors are not climate scientists and have campaigned against renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Farage’s address was advertised at the top of the Heartland website next to a series of videos rejecting established climate science, with titles including “Media Lying About Heatwaves” and “Crops LOVE Global Warming”. Arnn has also sat on the Heritage Foundation’s board of trustees since 2002.

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