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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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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. The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis.

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Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?

Grist

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. tipping point.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

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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Michael Gove’s Climate Views Put Him on Collision Course With New Spectator Bosses

DeSmogBlog

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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Hoboken Lodges First State-Level Racketeering Charge in Big Oil Climate Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

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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How global food production impacts the Paris Agreement

AGreenLiving

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.