DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The world was going to end in 2012, based on a popular misreading of the Mayan calendar — and then it didn’t. In 2018, after the release of a landmark United Nations report on the overheating planet, Greta Thunberg began saying that humanity only had “ 12 years ” to halt the destruction of global warming. Comforting.).

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Despite an unremitting stream of warnings and studies we still are not doing what we must to protect the natural world and keep temperatures from warming beyond critical upper temperature limits. In 2012 scientists warned us that our oceans are dying but we did not respond. Undeterred we continued to perpetrate genocide against nature.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion invested in fossil fuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossil fuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In 2012, Truss co-authored the book Britannia Unchained , which took a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology” and argued for a low-tax, deregulated economy. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. He said Truss should tax fossil fuel company profits, freeze energy bills and insulate homes.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants especially harmful. Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). Fossil fuel use is a major contributor of GHGs and coal powered power plants in particular are incompatible with emissions reductions. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? 3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Motivated by New York Governor Cuomo’s willingness to consider banning hydrofracking, Jacobson worked through the night to layer New York’s pollution, human health, morbidity and global warming data into a cohesive model. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org Jacobson’s Detailed Analysis.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. In 2012, for instance, a British project to reflect the sun with water droplets was canceled due to conflict-of-interest concerns over patents.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

It is, however, also very dependent on the burning on fossil fuels, which contributes to global warming and carbon emissions. Little Sun was founded in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen. It started off with a project in Ethiopia but is now a global project.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Supported by the French agency for ecological transition ADEME, the GAYA project aims to help deliver on French legal targets for a 50 per cent reduction in the quantity of waste going to landfill by 2025 compared with 2010 and a 30 per cent reduction in fossil fuel consumption in 2030 compared with 2012.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Sustainable funerals do not: Release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. An alternative, burning fossil fuels, results in high emissions of greenhouse gases. Globally, cremation emits over 6.8 Allow poisonous substances to enter our ecosystems and pollute the environment.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. Special Report - Global Warming of 1.5°C

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Read Next Study: A third of the West’s burned forests can be traced to fossil fuel companies Kate Yoder More than anyone else, Muir galvanized public support for the protection of nature against ecological degradation, but he didn’t believe that Indigenous people and their stewardship had a place in what he saw as pure wilderness.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This technique of using statements that are technically true but omit crucial information and therefore are misleading, is called paltering — and it’s an old favorite of the fossil fuel industry. In fact, it’s not the only tactic the NCBA has borrowed from Big Oil. on Capitol Hill.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. The latter category has grown by about 6,500 megawatts since 2012. million customers in New Jersey and another 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He committed to slashing Canada's methane emissions by three quarters by 2030, against a 2012 baseline, and said he would introduce regulations to "get the job done". of global warming to date. We know just how devastating methane emissions are, as does the fossil fuel industry," he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. The sea ice that forms a protective barrier around Kivalina is breaking up earlier as the climate warms. Credit: Suzanne Tennant. District Court.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2025

Even before this transformation, however, years of research suggested that Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests. They said the connections between these sectors are often underappreciated, even among those advocating for a fossil fuel phaseout.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In another article in September 2023, Brasil Paralelo defended the idea that global warming legitimizes NGOs’ actions pushing international actions such as the Paris Agreement, which the platform claims keeps developing countries producing less while first-world countries maintain their production. and European agricultural markets.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012. The release of the hacked emails was designed to make climate scientists appear to be conspiring to exaggerate the evidence about global warming.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s Wednesday, and Angulo and some 50 protesters are blocking traffic in front of BlackRock headquarters in New York City to push the world’s largest money manager to stop financing new fossil fuel projects. Researchers have found that developing new fossil fuel projects runs against that goal. It was an alarm for us.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Previous reports indicate that Tufton Street groups have received substantial funds from organisations that support climate science denial in the past decade, with some donations provided directly by fossil fuel firms. Every single one of its members was given the lowest transparency rating – E – by openDemocracy’s ‘ Who Funds You?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

Prior to that, he was a political director on Zac Goldsmith’s failed mayoral bid, and led Johnson’s “Back Boris” 2012 mayoral campaign. This argument has been jumped on by some net zero sceptic MPs , as well as the UK’s main climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Hintze, an Australian hedge fund manager who is set to join the House of Lords, is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The Critic has received funding from Tory donor Jeremy Hosking, who has millions invested in fossil fuels, according to Open Democracy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“The focus on overpopulation is a complete misdirection,” Cleetus told DeSmog, arguing that it’s part of an effort to deflect attention from the actual challenges facing our planet, which include a dangerous global reliance on climate-altering oil, gas and coal. Neither Tupy nor Jordan Peterson responded to questions about the lecture.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2021

of scientists globally agree that burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal is the main cause of climate change. The case for global action at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, where world leaders will meet to discuss the climate crisis , is strengthened by the study.

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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. Construction was set to begin over the summer.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The largest oil spill in American history highlights the soulless self interest of the fossil fuel industry. Extreme weather events have dominated headlines in the last decade and this was especially true in 2012 , 2013 and 2015. To add insult to injury he ramped up domestic production of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Add to that a huge round of new licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction – and no further windfall taxes on energy companies making bumper profits – and it’s clear the former Shell manager has few qualms about going all-out for fossil fuels. Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary. Zahawi earned £1.3

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