AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. As with the financial divestment movement, there is a valid debate about whether engagement with high-carbon firms that are working to reduce their emissions is more effective than simply severing ties. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

“Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced global warming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

And yet: Last year, the global average temperature was almost 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average, due to the vast amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide that humans have added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) This could lead to yet another negative feedback loop that could wreak havoc on the Arctic, drastically increasing the melting of not just sea ice but also Greenland's ice-sheets. Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. While the summit reaffirmed the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, C, a stark assessment revealed that current emission reduction pledges put the world on course for warming of 2.9°C. production was at a 62-year low, and exports were zero—it is a remarkable turnaround.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is “the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming.” As an extrovert, I have a strong need to be surrounded by people.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I’m reaching out to invite you to our show tomorrow to discuss how the media’s obsession with global warming manipulates the truth about wildfires,” a booking producer for the morning show Fox & Friends First wrote to Brown on September 5, 2023, proposing a five-minute video interview at 5:20 a.m. the next day.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 26, 2020

We need a coordinated global response that will take us into the next century and it should be obvious that business as usual won't do. If we reconsider the de-regulatory mayhem that resulted in the financial meltdown of 2008 and the insanity of deregulation under the Trump administration , we may be able to change our perilous course.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. But it also had a textbook answer: putting a price on carbon. business and political history.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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