DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). He also holds shares in Pantheon Resources, a UK company exploring for oil in Alaska.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

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

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The report has an article and quotes from FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox , the APPG’s public enquiry point, and quotes APPG vice-chair Steve Baker MP and Graham Stringer MP , both trustees of the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and Lord Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 17, 2019

This is the first time in the 140 years that we have monitored global temperatures that we have seen a global average reading of 62.13 Nine of the 10 hottest Julys have occurred since 2005—with the last five years ranking as the five hottest. Fahrenheit. July 2019 beat the record set in July 2016. The trend is unmistakable.

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Grist

JUNE 13, 2023

Climate change is involved, but natural variations in global weather, and an unfortunate dose of serendipity, are also at play. Global warming itself hasn’t suddenly accelerated this year,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a live briefing on Monday. This is the Atlantic.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 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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Grist

MAY 9, 2024

And because of its depth and northern latitude, the water here is about as cold as corals can tolerate, essentially protecting the Flower Garden Banks from global warming. Amy Wagner’s team drills a coral sample from the Flower Garden Banks in 2005. They just look like a bunch of rocks on the bottom,” she said. “You

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

In April , the firm revealed it has slashed CO2 emissions from its operations by 75 per cent since 2005, and is now aiming to cut its CO2 by 80 per cent between 2015 and 2025. The Scope 3 target covers two-thirds of products sold by the firm.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? And if that approach feels a little familiar, maybe that’s because it’s very similar to the tactics used by another industry in the past: Big Tobacco.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

But it puts the utility’s plans at odds with analysts, regulators and activists who say that adding new fossil-fueled energy infrastructure runs counter to the pressing need to eliminate carbon emissions to combat the worst effects of global warming.

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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. percent (£1.8

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

billion more days of heatwave exposure in 2020 compared to the baseline average between 1986 and 2005. At the same time, exposure to heatwaves has increased, with adults over 65 affected by 3.1 Rising temperatures are also contributing to an increase in food insecurity, according to the report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The agency has not updated its mid-century goal - to halve aviation's emission by 2050 on 2005 levels - for 12 years, despite growing numbers of airlines adopting new net zero emissions targets.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

At the same time, the country aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (a target which some deem “insufficient” and doesn’t go far enough towards helping limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures). billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

Certainly our article did not disprove that climate changes have had disastrous impacts on past societies — let alone that global warming has had, and will have, calamitous consequences for us,” Degroot wrote in a post. Of course, the idea that a changing climate can drive collapse isn’t wrong. It’s just not the whole story.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Modelling by think tank Clean Prosperity also suggests that these policies could get Canada close to the lower end of its 2030 climate target (40-45% below 2005 levels).

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Sunrun

APRIL 27, 2018

Between 2005 and 2015, around 60% of the analyzed sites were in the hot category, and nearly 15% were in a new category: extremely hot.4 4 Summers in several U.S. cities are now either hot or extremely hot compared with the mid-20th century, and in many U.S. 5 Ironic, right? But there is no need to feel guilty about this!

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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. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. And so they fought.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As evidence of that, cities are considered one of four global systems that can accelerate climate action in terms of both mitigation and adaptation; as the IPCC laid out in its Special Report for Cities back in 2018: 'Climate science must be accessible to urban policymakers, because without them, there will be no limiting global warming to 1.5°C.'.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

Canada also increased its emission reduction target from 30 per cent below 2005 levels to between 40 and 45 per cent. Even the International Energy Agency has concluded that, to keep global warming to less than 2 C, oil supply will need to peak in 2022 and gas in 2025 before declining indefinitely. the EU, the U.K.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement , first enacted in 2016, countries across the globe — and their respective cities, some of which are members of the C40 — have agreed to decrease global warming by keeping the collective planet-wide temperature rise to no more than 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

As investors we need to work with companies to ensure that they are aligned with a pathway to keep global warming at 1.5C.". "As we enter the 'decade of transition' having only 17 per cent of companies with credible net zero commitments is not enough," he said. "As

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the momentum to curb global warming gathers pace, carbon markets are becoming increasingly fundamental to scaling up and accelerating the green transition. The first step towards a global carbon market was taken with the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in 2005. Historical siloes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rodrigo Constantino, another founder, columnist at Gazeta do Povo , and president of the libertarian Instituto Liberal, has accused scientists of deceptively using the term “climate change”, rather than “global warming”, in order to blame all extreme weather events on the phenomenon.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon removal is also a core feature of UN climate action plans (IPCC, 2005; IPCC, 2018; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC], the Paris Climate Agreement, n.d.). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). 15 November 2017.

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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. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In an updated submission to the UN on Wednesday the Brazilian government said it would aim to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060, but it left unchanged current goals to reduce emissions 37 per cent by 2025 and 43 per cent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. The new goal builds on the recent decision to sell stocks in 22 coal companies.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

On global electricity usage of communication technology: trends to 2030. Global warming: Data centres to consume three times as much energy in next decade, experts warn. Assessing ICT global emissions footprint: Trends to 2040 & recommendations. “Growth in data center electricity use 2005 to 2010.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Around the same time, the group published an article refuting the idea that weather variations were becoming more extreme, and stated on its website that “those who would like to see massive cuts in energy use associate bad weather with global warming in an effort to promote their cause.” .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To meet Paris Agreement commitments of keeping global warming “ well below ” 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, specialists in climate, public health, and other areas advise cutting herd numbers, particularly on intensive farms, and eating less animal protein, especially in richer countries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But instead of a long-term carbon commitment, NextEra pledged to reduce its carbon emissions rate 67 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. Emera has reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 24 percent since 2005 and cut coal’s share of its generation mix by 70 percent, as of 2018. It generated 73.6

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. There is over $5 trillion in value-at-risk to US assets under a middle-of-the-road global warming scenario—not including the cost of market volatility. Sponsored Article.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning biomass from sustainably managed woodland is a viable alternative to the release and accumulation of fossil fuel carbon in the atmosphere, and is a key weapon in the fight against global warming. The attempt to argue otherwise is scientific sophistry, and, to borrow a phrase, a dangerous bioenergy delusion. REFERENCES.

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