Canary Media

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When Melinda Sims first started LoCI Controls , a company that provides landfills with real-time data on methane collection, she wasn’t trying to address climate change. It was 2012, and methane — a super-pollutant that traps 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over a 20-year time period — wasn’t yet a part of…

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against five oil companies and the oil industry’s most powerful lobbying group for covering up and misleading the public about climate change, the latest round of state and municipal-led climate litigation seeking accountability from the oil industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Civil engineer and Chartered Water & Environmental Manager Simon Crowther has both personal experience of flooding (as “victim” in 2007), and expertise in tackling it, as director of Flood Protection Solutions , which he founded in 2012. Here, he offers his own thoughts on the sector’s current shape and direction.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If there is one issue that transcends all the different areas of modern journalism, then climate change is it. According to an independent study, commissioned by Clim8 Invest, climate change is the number one concern for 61 per cent of UK consumers. Taking action.

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Energy Central

MARCH 31, 2022

As climate change dries out the American West and much of the rest of the world, farmers are responding by growing more crops in greenhouses. In Colorado, where I live, from 2012 to 2017, the total number of greenhouse farms increased by 47%.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

As climate change continues to intensify, the frequency and severity of extreme heat are projected to increase. Although extensive research has explored the effects of climate change on agricultural production, detailed financial implications for farmers have been lacking. And it’s not just about immediate losses.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee 2012-2023, gave a keynote address where he highlighted how Scotland’s renewable energy industry is playing a major role in helping the UK reach it’s net-zero targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Between 2012 and 2016, peak coal phase-out years, the UK achieved an annual average rate of decarbonisation of 6.9%. The majority of the UK’s recent emissions reductions have come from the phase-out of coal. But this trend of decarbonisation is neither sustainable or sufficient. It was only in 2014 that the UK achieved the 9.7%

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Using a long-term experimental forest in Ardross, near Inverness in Scotland, they measured the impact of a spring drought in 2012 on monocultures of two species – Sitka spruce and Scots pine – compared to mixtures of the same two species growing together in different proportions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

e), representing a 3 per cent rise, and have increased by 9 per cent since 2012. The report noted that surface transport emissions rose for the fourth consecutive year to 10.5 Metric Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (MtCO?e), per cent per year.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S. As the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Long running issues tracker reveals proportion of people worried about pollution, the environment, and climate change has reached highest level recorded since July 1990. The largest shift in January was an increase in the proportion who mention pollution, climate change or the environment as a big issue for Britain," Ipsos MORI said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Ahead of the 2009 international climate-change summit in Copenhagen, hackers stole email correspondence between Mann and other climate scientists from a computer server at the University of East Anglia. Michael Mann's work as a press critic began in earnest a decade ago.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Energy Innovation today congratulated its Founder Hal Harvey on his retirement after 38 years of service mitigating climate change, including a decade leading the firm. The post Energy Innovation Founder Hal Harvey Retires After Career Of Service Mitigating Climate Change appeared first on Energy Innovation.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Energy Innovation today congratulated its Founder Hal Harvey on his retirement after 38 years of service mitigating climate change, including a decade leading the firm. The post Energy Innovation Founder Hal Harvey Retires After Career Of Service Mitigating Climate Change appeared first on Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As we face the challenges of climate change and a growing global population, sustainable energy sources like solar power play a pivotal role in securing a cleaner, more resilient future,” says Bryan Didier, partner and managing director of renewable energy for Monarch Private Capital. “Our million homes for one year. “As

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

The pressure and humidity measurement devices developed by the FMI are based on Vaisala’s sensor technology and are similar but more advanced than the ones sent to Mars on the first Curiosity rover in 2012. While working on Mars, the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers?will?form form a small-scale observation network. The network is only?the?first

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This research helped establish that burning fossil fuels has been the main driver of climate change, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included the hockey stick graph in its 2001 assessment report on climate science. It didn’t even mention Mann’s name,” and was badly written.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But coal-fired power generation has dropped dramatically in the UK since 2012 , falling from nearly 40 percent to just 1 percent of the UK’s electricity mix by 2023. The UK passed a Climate Change Act in 2008 that set it on a path to ditch coal on the way to reaching a target of net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Attempts to sue polluting companies and governments over their responsibility for climate change would have a greater chance of success if they made better use of the latest science, according to a study by Oxford University researchers. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Fast-moving droughts like this one are developing more and more quickly as climate change pushes temperatures to new extremes, recent research indicates — adding a new threat to the dangers of pests, flooding, and more long-term drought that farmers in the U.S. In 2012, a flash drought struck the Central U.S. already face. “Our

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change makes the case that all these alarming events should be called something other than tipping points. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. East Coast could be submerged by rising seas. We better do something about that.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A good example can be seen in Zinder, Niger, the third largest city in that country: estimated to be growing at more than 5% annually, Zinder has nearly doubled in size since the last official census in 2012, and will likely double again by 2034. In the rightmost image, new urban construction (since the 2012 census) is denoted in purple.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These aren’t just isolated examples of oil and gas companies partnering with academic institutions, according to a study published in the journal WIREs Climate Change by researchers with six universities, but an international effort by the industry spanning decades with the goal of obstructing and slowing down climate action.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 5, 2021

Since 2012, the FedEx Fuel Sense and Aircraft Modernization programs have saved a combined 1.43 Addressing climate change is a complex challenge that demands urgent action, and natural carbon capture strategies will be one key part of that action,” said Dr. Ingrid C. Fuel Conservation and Aircraft Modernization.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Additionally, the incorporation of the Extended Product Approach into the upcoming revision of EU Regulation 547/2012 for water pumps could unlock a further 35 TWh in energy savings. Since 2016, these endeavours have resulted in the saving of 226 million MWh of electricity and a reduction of 158 million tons of CO2 emissions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 18, 2020

billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution (MIT, 2012). 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. anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on global warming potential) and about 93% of total U.S. anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

politicians last week as part of its three year-long investigation into how the oil industry has worked to undermine efforts to tackle climate change. Carbon pricing can only be part of a policy approach to tackling climate change, it can’t be the solution by itself. The evidence unearthed by U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We also welcome Minister Guilbeault’s strong history of climate leadership into the role of environment and climate change minister. “In In reality, every minister must be a climate minister, taking a collaborative approach to building a sustainable economy. RESOURCES.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Labour, which has been in power for less than three months, has already unveiled an ambitious raft of policies to tackle climate change, including plans to decarbonise electricity by 2030, facilitated by a state-owned company GB Energy. Drax disputes this claim.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It’s like a climate change alarm,” said Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at University College London. For instance, an extreme melting event in 2012 led to the loss of 610 gigatons of ice, enough to fill Lake Eerie, and then some.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

According to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released in November, the RT website – along with fellow Russian outlet Sputnik News – was one of ten online sources responsible for 69 percent of climate change denial content on Facebook over the previous year. Deniers Promoted.

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