DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

A number of climate consensus studies conducted between 2004 and 2015 found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of experts agree that humans are responsible for climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cluff was its chairman until 2004, during which Charles Moore, Dominic Lawson, and Boris Johnson were editors. The magazine was edited in the 1960s by the late Nigel Lawson, who would become Thatcher’s chancellor and in later life promote climate science denial through the Global Warming Policy Foundation , based at 55 Tufton Street.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

An outbreak of chikungunya, another mosquito-borne disease, between 2004 and 2005 was linked to drought in coastal Kenya for these reasons. 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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Christopher Kemper

JUNE 20, 2020

2004 Tsunami This changed my life. For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes, global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. Fundamental to my passion?—?my my brand?—?is

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2021

Related: Global warming is making crop storage costly for farmers “What we are expecting is the temperature is going to increase a lot and we will not get as much rainfall in the summertime especially,” said Rafa Tasnim, as reported by Associated Press. million pounds of wild blueberries, the smallest amount since 2004.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In 2004, a giant iceberg identified as A38 grounded on the British Overseas territory of South Georgia Island. Afterward, many local animals, including young penguins and seals, turned up dead. The same scenario is unfolding with the world’s largest iceberg, A68a, as it appears via satellite imagery to be moving toward the island.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. She has been with SEPA since 1992, when the organization was Utility Photovoltaic Group, leaving for a brief period before returning to SEPA in 2004.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. Environments and weather systems the world over are being altered, threatened and destroyed. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

UNEP is among the group of official bodies that fear these impacts could create feedback loops, whereby a warming climate puts more pressure on terrestrial ecosystems, leading to more emissions, and in turn more warming. Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures," the agency states. "At

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he wants to “max out” the UK’s oil and gas reserves, despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are “incompatible” with the legally binding 1.5C

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

A study out this week found that 90 percent of media coverage accurately represented the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming, looking at thousands of articles from 2005 to 2019. A study last year found major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Citing global warming as the cause, the suit alleged that, “sea ice forms later in the year, attaches to the coast later, breaks up earlier, and is less extensive and thinner, thus subjecting Kivalina to coastal storm waves and surges. Luke Cole’s colleague Brent Newell, left, and Enoch Adams, Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Gove and Badenoch will also be speaking alongside Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, who has called climate change a “hoax”, and former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott – a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. In December 2015, Patrick J.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

In 2022 the Charity Commission, the UK’s independent charity regulator, launched a case into the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up by the (now late) Conservative peer Nigel Lawson in 2009. World temperatures reached their hottest levels ever measured in July this year.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s leading climate science denial group, which has claimed that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. million to the company during the year.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 29, 2019

In 2004, a consorted global efforts succeeded in slowing deforestation in the region. However, to succeed today we will need a far more ambitious global effort. European leaders have also indicated that trade deals with Brazil are contingent on protecting the Amazon. Subscribe in a reader.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. The biggest single step we can take to cut our dependence on oil and to stop global warming is to make vehicles efficient,” said Becker, “and ultimately, they need to be electric.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. million ($2 million) from foundations related to petrochemicals giant Koch Industries from 2004 to 2017. The AEI has received over £2.9

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org.

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