Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

The myth that most people imagine global warming as a distant concern “could be one explanation of why people tend to underestimate other people’s climate change perceptions,” van Valkengoed said. A large portion of the public has thought of global warming as near-at-hand for decades.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

For example, the most authoritative bottom-up study in the last decade appeared in 2011 (Koomey 2011), and it estimated that data centers accounted for between 1.1 percent of global electricity use in 2010. On global electricity usage of communication technology: trends to 2030. Koomey, Jonathan (2011). Belkhir, L.

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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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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. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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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. A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the impact of global warming on their child’s health should be discussed during their routine visits. There was a heat wave.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. That thirsty atmosphere has been behind most of the studies that have found a clear link between global warming and persistent droughts.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

The current Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, Claire Coutinho, accepted a £2,000 donation in January 2024 from Lord Michael Hintze, a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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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. Mackerel itself had not been seen in Greenland waters before 2011, and we think that the tuna more or less followed the mackerel. Arctic sea ice, which is responsible for maintaining cool polar temperatures, is dwindling rapidly.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. Source: Energy Information Administration.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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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

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. In 2011, just a year after entering Parliament, Truss founded the Free Enterprise Group of backbench Conservative MPs described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Since 2011, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has regulated sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions from gas-insulated switchgears (GIS). Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. By JP Brisson , Aron Potash , R.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Since 2011, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has regulated sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions from gas-insulated switchgears (GIS). Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. By JP Brisson , Aron Potash , R.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2011, shortly after her election as an MP, Truss – who once worked as a commercial manager for Shell – set up the Free Enterprise Group, which has been described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

Related: NYC Metronome clock now displays deadline for irreversible global warming Using that definition, the researchers found that from 1952 to 2011, the number of summer days in the Northern Hemisphere increased from 78 to 95. Meanwhile, winter shrank by three days, spring by nine and fall by five.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In phase one running from 2011 to 2018, some 32km of tunnels varying in depth from 20m to 60m were constructed across north London between Willesden in the west and Hackney in the east and from Kensal Green south to Wimbledon.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

WWF said that its analysis was the first quantification of total on-farm food losses since 2011 and when it is combined with updated data on loss in supply chains and waste at retail and consumption, the scale of food waste appears to be considerably higher than previous estimates. "We

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

After a 2011 nuclear power accident in Fukushima, the Japanese public has remained opposed to nuclear energy. Further, Annesley said the country needs to target 50% renewable energy by 2030 to reach net-zero energy by 2050 and help prevent global warming above 1.5°C. Via The Guardian Image via Ryo Yoshitake.

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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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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s not a record, he said, noting that considerably more carbon was emitted in 2011 and 2012, when very large fires raged across Australia’s northern territory and out west. By any measure, 400 million tons is a significant chunk of heat-trapping gases that will get mixed into the atmosphere, fueling more global warming.

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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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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Cost estimates per ton of CO 2 removed have dropped from about $600 (American Physical Society 2011) by a factor of three or more. Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Global warming of 1.5 C An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 One estimate by Keith et al.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Brown has called animal agriculture “the world’s most destructive technology” and is on a mission to save the world from global warming by providing faux products to please mainstream tastes. Since its founding in 2011, Impossible Foods has raised $1.5 billion in investment capital.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

They presented their plans to the public at the British Science Festival in the fall of 2011 — and triggered a “ fiasco,” as an editorial in the journal Nature described it. Known as the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering, or Spice, project, it was run by three U.K. government to cancel the trial.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2021

HAC is a coalition of more than 50 countries that was formed in 2011 to encourage internal action on the climate crisis prior to the Paris Agreement. It was formed in Durban in 2011 and has been at the forefront of encouraging international action on the climate crisis. and Costa Rica.

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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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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. Divers first noticed the methane seep in 2011, but scientists didn’t start investigating until 2016, studying it in detail both onsite and in the laboratory.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Looking further ahead, the emissions gap in 2030 is estimated at 12-15Gt CO 2e to limit global warming below 2C, and 19-32Gt to meet the 1.5C Analysis from the WMO and UK Met Office concludes that the average global temperature for 2016-20 is expected to be the warmest on record, about 1.1C

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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.

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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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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

SF6 is the most potent GHG, with a global warming potential (GWP) tens of thousands of times higher than carbon dioxide. The current SF6 Regulation came into effect in 2011, setting an annual emission rate limit for SF6 as a percentage of a GIE owner’s cumulative SF6 nameplate capacity. The SF6 Regulation and GHG Emissions.

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