DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. He also has a record of climate science denial, writing on X in August 2022: “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This time, Heartland is frantically spinning the results of a survey it commissioned in its latest attempt to dispute the robust scientific consensus on climate change. To be clear, climate experts overwhelmingly agree that climate change is happening and that humans are primarily responsible.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

In January, DeSmog revealed that Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho had received a donation from one of the early funders of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Over 100 people from the oil and gas sector have been appointed to top government roles since 2011.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Renewable energy continues to become more popular across the United States, with wind power production nearly tripling since 2011 and solar power production multiplying by 23 times in the same time period.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2011, DeSmog revealed that FTI Consulting’s “Energy In Depth” campaign was launched on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, a US oil and gas lobby group, to support fracking for shale gas, with funding from BP, Halliburton, Chevron, Shell and a firm later bought by ExxonMobil.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The survey , conducted by YouGov, was commissioned by “ CAR26 ”, a campaign group that questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. and “What are the good and bad impacts of any global warming?”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. The UK is heading to the polls on July 4.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Anybody who’s watched the news over the past month will know that the effects of climate change are becoming too pressing to ignore. Put together by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the comprehensive report confirms that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans, and land.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. Coyne himself acknowledges climate change is real and has argued frequently over the years that the most efficient way to address it is through a national price on carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Porter wrote articles in 2011 supporting economic “austerity” and urging then Prime Minister David Cameron, who went on to “ cut the green crap ”, not to be “timid” about cuts to government spending. The IEA declined to comment on BP funding, referring DeSmog to the “ who funds you ” section on its website, which does not name donors.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. As reported by MIT , as of 2011, the burning of fossil fuels were responsible for more than 36.6 According to the EIA , in 2017, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy were equal to about 76% of total U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Lord Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy. The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". Urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2023

The oldest and thickest of it has declined by 95 percent during three decades of global warming. He noted that the scope of what’s happening in Greenland shows that the effects of climate change are certain and long-ranging, impacting ecosystems across thousands of miles. “It It’s a huge distance,” said Heide-Jørgensen.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. GWPF Donations to Senior Tories Donors to the GWPF are also important funders of the Conservative Party.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

The research synopsis below comes from Eric Masanet and Nuoa Lei of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Koomey, Jonathan (2011).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Physical Science Basis report estimates an over 36% increase in SF 6 in the atmosphere between 2011 and 2019. However, in practice on the human and utility timescales, the impact remains unchanged and is significant.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Responding to climate change is no longer a constraint on economic growth,” Suga said. We need to change our thinking to the view that taking assertive measures against climate change will lead to changes in industrial structure and the economy that will bring about growth,” Suga said. Read the original:Â .

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As with the rest of the Arctic, they are threatened by climate change. But there was reason to hope for Milne Fjord: For years, scientists believed this area, home to the oldest and thickest ice in the northern hemisphere, would survive the worst effects of global warming. degrees C (2.7

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So even if it was or is colder in some places, that does not detract from the veracity of global warming. percent chance that 2019 will be one of the five warmest years on record (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings are as follows: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A spokesperson said the company had a “strict zero deforestation policy” as well as “strong commitments to action on climate change”. Climate Denial. IMIL has been a prominent source of climate misinformation in Brazil, allowing it to downplay the vital role the Amazon plays as a carbon sink regulating the Earth’s climate.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The recently-released United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook opens with these words: "Humanity stands at a crossroads with regard to the legacy it leaves to future generations.". Here's why: The science is absolutely clear: we cannot stabilise the climate without eliminating deforestation completely.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. Gigatonnes (Gt) last year - 62 per cent higher than at the start of UN climate change negotiations in 1990.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Global warming of 1.5 Source: IPCC 1.5°C

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AGreenLiving

JULY 23, 2020

They don’t know the leak’s cause, but global warming probably isn’t to blame, since the Ross Sea has not yet warmed significantly. Current climate change models don’t allow for this lag time between seepage and microbe development, which could lead researchers to overly-optimistic conclusions.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

global warming threshold within the next five years, according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with higher temperatures likely to inflict disease, drought, and extreme weather events that will hit vulnerable Global South populations the hardest. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) provisional, State of the Global Climate report for 2019, the last five year period, "is currently estimated to be 1.1

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Climate change moves into the mainstream, and more kids get involved While a few climate deniers still fill high-ranking political posts, climate change is much more widely accepted as fact — rather than something to “believe in” — than it was in 2010. Researchers are still gauging the long-term effects.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. Even during the past administration, state- and local-level climate pledges across the country continued to grow , with two-thirds of Americans (across party lines!)

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1. BNEF compared 1.5C

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

But a more authoritative and high profile source of the view that burning biomass is bad for the climate is a 2017 report prepared for the prestigious think-tank Chatham House called Woody Biomass for Power and Heat. Brack’s report caused quite a stir. and refers to extreme cases that do not represent current practice.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This is despite new polling showing that 57 percent of 2019 Conservative voters think that Sunak hasn’t gone far enough to tackle climate change, while only 9 percent think he has gone too far. The study also found that burning fossil fuels made heatwaves in China 50 times more likely.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2022

A charity with ties to senior Conservative MPs has appointed a professor who said protecting the environment was an “innovation of the Devil” and has dismissed the science of human-caused climate change. Furfari and Climate Denial. There is currently strong support among the British public for action on climate change.

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