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Who are net-zero leaders and laggards in food?

GreenBiz

Post Holdings sources less than 2% of its energy from renewables, has not responded to any CDP surveys sent since 2012 and has not announced an emissions target. A critical next step is to implement an emissions-reductions plan that’s in line with limiting global warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably 1.5

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Maps enhance flood risk modelling

Envirotec Magazine

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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Conservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors

DeSmogBlog

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. million to the Conservative Party since 2002, including £257,400 in the last year.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

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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You Can't Say You Haven't Been Warned

Green Market Oracle

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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Media Repeats Kremlin Anti-Fracking Claims – While Ignoring Russia’s Promotion of Climate Denial

DeSmogBlog

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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Heartland Institute’s Survey Actually Supports the 97% Climate Science Consensus It’s Trying to Attack

DeSmogBlog

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.