DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy, law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent and highly controversial field of science. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

Hence, a huge global debate is going on regarding how to protect, preserve and utilise natural resources in a sustainable way. These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. The year was 2008. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Lacey Act , first enacted in 1900 to ban trafficking of illegal wildlife , then amended in 2008 to include plants and plant products, like timber. Mislabeling of wood is of high concern because illegal logging harms fragile forests, placing them at risk of biodiversity loss. Whether purposeful or not, mislabeling breaches the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

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.-based based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. He died in 2008. Wigley would go on to receive a £10,000 research grant from Shell.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

In 2008, Robock penned an article for the Bulletin on the 20 reasons solar geoengineering could be a bad — possibly even catastrophic — idea ; a more recent version expanded the list to 26. Solar geoengineering is a controversial area of research for numerous reasons. The question is, which is riskier: doing it or not doing it?”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “A Dubai investment fund owning a British broadcaster, funding a wing of the government and with a track record of backing reactionary causes, isn’t exactly what our politics needs at the moment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each received £10,000 from companies owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s leading climate science denial groups.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Charlie Baker, Massachusetts' Republican governor, recently committed the state to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a legally binding limit backed by the state's 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Trump signed it into law.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

UN Secretary General António Guterres has already declared that the world has "a responsibility to recover better" than it did after the financial crisis in 2008, arguing the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change should provide the framework for the stimulus packages that are already taking shape. "We

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data.

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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. Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. business and political history. 16 Wendy L.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The largest systemic risk of them all, climate change, is driven by reckless investments in fossil fuels, exactly the kind of speculative activities Dodd-Frank was meant to end in order to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. The first fight — personnel is policy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. of global warming by 2050.

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