DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Back in 2012, it erected a billboard in a Chicago suburb, not far from its headquarters, featuring a glowering photograph of the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, whose bombing campaign killed three and injured nearly two dozen. The billboard read: “I still believe in global warming. And there’s plenty of evidence about that consensus.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction. It concludes that “the theory supporting global warming has taken a significant blow”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. Hintze, founder and co-CEO of the global asset management fund CQS , has given £4.7

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Between 2012 and 2017, food systems were responsible for about 16 billion tons of CO2 each year. At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he wants to “max out” the UK’s oil and gas reserves, despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are “incompatible” with the legally binding 1.5C

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Global warming, an existential crisis becoming all too real like COVID-19, will only exacerbate these inequalities, unless we act now. Health Effects of Pollution Pollution and global warming have very real health effects from heat stroke to asthma to premature death caused by cancer-causing chemicals.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. He added that “peer-reviewed scientific research states that the rapid [global] warming is substantially due to the methane, nitrous oxide, and fossil fuel emissions we produce.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

°C global warming limit, cut the water footprint of clothing products, and deliver a UK-wide circular textiles roadmap. From its launch in 2012 until 2019, SCAP had already exeeded its 2020 deadline targets, with members achieving a near 16 per cent reduction in CO2 per tonne of garments, and a 19.5

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Even within a relatively pristine tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico, researchers in 2018 found that between 1976 and 2012, the biomass of its insect species had fallen between 10- and 60-fold.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Singer was a speaker at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67 million from Exxon, Koch and the Scaife Family Foundations. In 2014 DeSmog revealed that Singer received $5,000 a month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute , which has taken donations from oil interests including ExxonMobil and the Koch family.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

global warming pathway. The company - which has been a net zero business since 2012 thanks to its investments in offsetting, alongside a reduction in its carbon emissions intensity of 61 per cent since 2010 - said it would now cut all of its own carbon emissions to zero by 2030 without the use of offsetting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Sustainable Clothing Action Plan 2020 Commitment (SCAP) launched in 2012 with a goal of encouraging leading fashion brands, retailers, textile recycling companies, and governments, among other stakeholders, to work together to reduce the environmental impact of clothing in the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

New Jersey National Guard assisted displaced residents in Hoboken in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. As early as 1959, for example, physicist Edward Teller spoke about global warming that could melt the ice caps and submerge coastal cities at an oil industry symposium organized by API. Credit: U.S.

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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 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

This event averaged 30 to 60 millimeters (mm) per year (Cronin 2012, Golledge 2014), some 10 to 20 times faster than current rates. As such, a meltwater pulse from the past does not provide a perfect analog for what rates may occur with extended global warming during this century and hundreds of years to come. mm per year.

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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 ). These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report.

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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. 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 CO2 emissions.

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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.

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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. In 2019 as trade secretary, Truss hired the IEA’s head of communications as her media advisor.

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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. Bluefin tuna had never been recorded off the eastern shore of Greenland prior to 2012, but have been recorded every year since. “We Arctic sea ice, which is responsible for maintaining cool polar temperatures, is dwindling rapidly.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In 2012, he co-founded Boston Electrometallurgical (a.k.a. As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants.

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Fairsnape

JUNE 8, 2019

Over the last thirty years or so, in what we could call our eco era, with a focus on reducing impact and taking actions not to compromise tomorrows generation, we have seen increases in C02 and global warming. We have not moved the needle; instead, we have watched the needle move in the wrong direction.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Chasing Ice, 2012 This award-winning film pulls together years of time-lapse photography to document the planet’s rapidly melting glaciers.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the social media posts, published between 2010 and 2012, Trevelyan insisted global warming was not happening and branded global warming campaigners as "doom-mongers" and "fanatics".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Six years on, her campaign is being run by the leading opponent of net zero in parliament – Steve Baker MP, a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and deputy chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG). Foreign Secretary.

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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. Photo: Aminata Nimaga, red. Energy is the engine of development – it brings life transforming benefits.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

For lower-stress, community-driven processes, building trust in government officials and starting discussions early, before the next flood takes place, are essential enablers (de Vries and Fraser 2012). Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Extreme weather events become more frequent As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned, global warming escalates weather disasters. disasters included Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and the Missouri tornadoes of 2011. In 2012, Lonesome George, the last Pinta tortoise , died at over 100 years old. Notable U.S.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Collated and published each year before the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), The Lancet ’s Countdown strongly emphasizes that tackling climate change would be a significant global health opportunity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012.

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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. He then added in the energy outputs from New York’s existing and potential WWS supplies.

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