Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. And these new technologies are key, as solar energy plays a major role in the fight against climate change. appeared first on Renewable Energy World.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Mordaunt himself told openDemocracy in 2019 that “no one has proved yet that CO2 is the culprit” of climate change. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s top climate science body, has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Polling by More in Common and E3G during the 2024 general election period found that a majority of people in every UK constituency are worried about climate change. Some 61 percent of 2024 Conservative voters said they are worried about climate change, matched by 76 percent of Labour voters, and 65 percent of the country overall.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change has altered those conditions though, by warming oceans to record high temperatures and introducing more freshwater through sea-ice and glacier melt. We’re talking huge, huge climate changes in a very short time,” said Ditlevsen. “We The Earth is changing,” said Tedesco. degree Celsius (1.9

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The Environment Agency last year upgraded Clacton’s flood defences as part of a £10 million project to protect more than 3,000 properties and businesses in the area from “climate change and sea level rise”. However, Farage is actively campaigning to scrap the green policies that may help to limit local flooding. metres) and 3.61

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. There are millions of people like him in this world.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts , Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. We keep talking about this runaway train of positive feedbacks accelerating climate change, but this looks like a brake.”.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 6, 2024

Firstly, it was reported that the UK’s Climate Change Committee was recommending that the UK Government refrain from carrying forward a surplus in its legality binding carbon budgets , arguing that this was caused by Covid restrictions rather than genuine decarbonisation. Two recent news stories made me ponder this question.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” I urge Mr. Koonin to do the same.”

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Given the cold spell experienced in January.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2024

During his two decades in Parliament, Poilievre voted in favor of the environment and climate action just 13 times, DeSmog calculates based on a comprehensive list detailing every House of Commons vote he’s made as a federal politician. A 20-year Voting Record Poilievre was first elected as a Conservative MP in 2004.

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Eco-Business

JULY 18, 2023

Between 1970 and 2004, three extreme flood events occurred per year on average in India, but after 2005, the yearly average rose to 11. Rise in both land and sea temperatures has increased the capacity of the air to hold moisture for a longer time.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It underscores the importance of hydrogen as an integral part of combating climate change and improving energy security. 2004: The German navy successfully tested the first hydrogen-powered submarine, showcasing hydrogen’s potential in marine technology.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Former US vice-president Al Gore has teamed up with the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), David Blood, to launch a new asset manager, which they say will prioritise tackling climate change. The new firm, Just Climate, says its mission is to achieve the limiting of global temperature rise to 1.5°C

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Chris Stark, the former chief executive of the government’s advisory body, the Climate Change Committee, was on Tuesday appointed the head of Mission Control for Clean Power, in charge of decarbonising the UK’s electricity by 2030. The scale of the challenge is enormous. Ed has been here before.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Jim had recently read Boiling Point , Ross’s 2004 book chronicling the fossil fuel industries’ strategy of denial and delay, which Gelbspan correctly labeled a crime against humanity. “I It was Ross’s books and journalism that sparked the flames of outrage and opportunity that inspired Jim Hoggan to create the DeSmogBlog in late 2005.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. Evidence of this deception has become the basis for dozens of lawsuits against fossil fuel giants in recent years, with cities and states seeking to hold companies and governments responsible for damages from climate change.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of my bugbears is the constant attempts to shift the ‘blame’ for climate change to someone else – whether it is China, Big Business or the Super-Rich. Concerned about the damage being done to its corporate reputation by the climate crisis, BP hired a public relations firm to bolster its image.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 on the papers. The inadequate regard paid to the effect of high housing numbers on climate change. Bioabundance announced on 1 April that it has filed a request for an oral court hearing to hear the application for a statutory review under s.113

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The last time online searches for hydrogen or fuel cells were this intense was back in 2004, according to Google Trends. ” “[It is] different this time because of the societal interest in tackling climate change,” he said. The country installed 130 GWs of solar PV in between 2010 and 2017. President George W.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

where recent research has found that one in ten premature deaths are caused by air-polluting fossil fuels, medical schools have only begun grappling with a lack of curricula focused on climate change in the last couple of years. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Because if this is some sort of effect from climate change,” she said, “this is not going to get better, this is going to get worse, right?” Erdner’s concerns about climate change, trends and risk were echoed by residents in western Pennsylvania in June, when six tornadoes hit the state within an hour.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. But climate change is throwing off generations of traditional knowledge as weather — especially rainfall — has become less predictable. Misjudging the best planting time can lead to financial ruin. Wright: Dr. Armi Susandi, MT.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Globally, organisations are starting to take steps to reduce emissions across their operations in order to adapt to the effects of climate change, resource scarcity and ensure long-term commercial success. From our experience, it's helpful to break it down: What does climate change mean to your business?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Maurice Golden MSP, Shadow Climate Change, Environment, Land Reform Secretary, commented: “We want to see an ambitious and inclusive system that works well across the whole of the UK. 2004: Can sales dropped from 6.1 We must avoid this scenario playing out in the UK.”. iv] Excluding milk bottles. [v]

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Bahama nuthatch has been in trouble for some time as a 2004 survey reported its population was around 1,800. Three years later, a 2007 survey noted more hurricanes decreased its numbers to a mere 23. By the time Hurricane Matthew struck in 2016 the bird’s population dropped and in 2018 only two were found.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 30, 2023

Twenty years ago, we saw the same sort of moral panic over gay marriage, which ended up being used as a wedge issue during the 2004 presidential elections. What often gets left out of environmental and climate justice is the fairness in your experience of and interaction with your environment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 31, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2021

New Energy Nexus is described as a catalytic nonprofit organization bringing together a global community of climate change accelerators and entrepreneurs. New Energy Nexus started in California in 2004 as the California Clean Energy Fund, which was a non-profit venture capital fund. What is your role?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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