DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Lilley has been a longstanding political donor, having previously given £580,000 to the Conservative Party and its candidates between 2013 and 2023, as well as £150,000 to the Vote Leave campaign. An experienced metals and mining trader, Lilley is the former business partner of Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer, who is also a major party donor.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 The study began in earnest in 2013, and the more extensive sample collection was done in 2017, when divers were sent down to chisel sponges off the undersea walls. degrees Celsius, or 2.7 They don’t like to be disturbed.) degrees C, according to many current estimates, compared to the 1.7

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Grist

APRIL 9, 2021

The number of home sales in the region has steadily dropped since 2013, dragging down the once-high waterfront property prices. That doesn’t mean global warming isn’t having an impact, though: The region has experienced an increase in heat waves, heavy downpours, and flooding in recent decades.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee. Fossil Fuel Ties.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

In 2013, the so-called fifth assessment report painted a dark picture of our future if we were to continue down the same track. Global warming of 1.5 Many changes in the climate system become larger in direct relation to increasing global warming. It is the new normal.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Venture capital (VC) investment in climate tech grew five time faster than the average seen across the market as a whole between 2013 and 2019, according to fresh findings from PwC. But new PwC report warns 'rapid injection of capital, talent and public-private support' still required for climate tech to deliver on its massive promise.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They published these results in 2013 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters. The billboard read: “I still believe in global warming. In 2011, a news article in the journal Nature described the NIPCC as ignoring “mountains of evidence about the adverse effects of global warming.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Critics of the stakeholder capitalism model argue they cannot — believing that the quest for such a reconciliation is not just a fundamental limitation, but a potentially insurmountable weakness for addressing today’s global challenges. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success. The drive to improve disclosure around such metrics is ongoing.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing sea lions, and forcing whales into shipping lanes to find food. Met Office.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Although the environmental impact contribution per unit of meat from pig systems is relatively low, pig meat is the meat type most produced and consumed globally (FAO STATs, 2019) and thus contributes significantly to several forms of environmental impacts. for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2%

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

We are already perilously close to irreversible damage but scientists claim that we can stall global warming if we take immediate action. Frankly, this is one of our only hopes and must, at this juncture, be taken incredibly seriously by global leaders. What can be done?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While a lot of government and corporate commitments to tackle climate change focus on carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, methane is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that has taken place so far. Image: Google Google uses AI to detect oil and gas infrastructure in satellite images.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During the event, Baker failed to mention he had recently become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group criticised for its “laughable record of inaccurate and misleading claims”. His remarks come a month ahead of the UK government hosting the UN COP26 climate summit. They are implausible.”.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A half century ago climate models accurately predicted global warming. A brief review of climate science shows us that we have known about the dangers of a warming planet since the 1950s. In 2013 The U.S. In fact, in the 1960s the fossil fuel industry's own science revealed that they are causing global warming.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Devastation from Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

degrees is still a significant increment of additional global warming beyond what we’ve already experienced. The last time the IPCC came out with one of these assessments, in 2013 and 2014, experts were careful not to necessarily connect a big wildfire or a major drought to rising temperatures.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 4, 2019

Research investigating the 2013 Alberta floods found that climate change may have led to an increased likelihood of extreme rainfall. This is expected to climb to 65% if global warming reaches 2C. For additional Canadian attribution studies, see page 175 of the Canada’s Changing Climate Report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The report, published this morning, argues the government's ongoing support of overseas fossil fuel infrastructure not only fuels environmental degradation and global warming, but is a huge missed opportunity to generate tens of thousands of UK jobs as part of a 'green recovery' from the coronavirus crisis.

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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. Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. © Jon Wank.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report was covered in the the Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the influential conservative blog Guido Fawkes through both news reports and opinion pieces.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Report predicts global coal use will tick up again this year, but hopes remain that renewables boom could soon start to curb fossil fuel demand. Annual global coal demand is set to surpass eight billion tonnes for the first time this year, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013. per cent in 2022. "The

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Electoral Commission records show that the party and its MPs received considerable sums from the highly polluting aviation and construction industries, mining and oil interests, and individuals linked to the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a think tank that denies climate science.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

But the incident pointed to a serious problem: Ruminant livestock, mostly cattle, account for 30 percent of all global methane emissions, pumping out 3 gigatons of the gas every year in their burps, farts, and manure. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is another important step in our commitment to protect forest ecosystems, following on from our actions in this area in 2013 against unsustainable palm oil exploitation and in 2021 for sustainable forest management," said Ulrike Decoene, AXA's head of communications, brand, and sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. In 2013 it was already apparent that the mass extinction of our oceans was underway. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In a 2013 analysis of news coverage of climate engineering, “around 97 percent of the assertions about geoengineering were being made by men, only 3 percent by women,” says Holly Buck, a research fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, who conducted the work. The lack of diversity is easy to quantify.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. auris infections.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

That research demonstrates that the carbon majors contributed to more than 40 percent of global temperature rise, more than 25 percent of sea level rise, and over 50 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and the 2010s. The Alder fire in the Druid Complex in Yellowstone National Park, August 19, 2013.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The state comptroller said the fund would ditch many of its fossil fuel stocks in the next five years and sell its shares in other companies that contribute to global warming by 2040. The government has also set a target to cut emissions by 26 per cent against 2013 levels by 2030. Mcdonalds serves up US renewable energy deals.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Forecasting work carried out by the Climate Change Committee in 2019 on the UK's contribution to stopping global warming shows that 59 per cent of the changes the UK needs to make to achieve net zero rely not just on the large-scale transition to low-carbon technologies but also on wider human and societal behaviour change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. ” It also noted that “limiting global warming to below 1.5°C

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Supply chain risks were already apparent in 2013. These concerns were reiterated in a 2019 report from Zurich that reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 19, 2020

High temperatures in Death Valley are the norm, but the new high beats previous temperature records and is sounding the alarm on global warming. The former highest temperature reading was also recorded in Death Valley in 2013 and has remained unchanged until Sunday. The 1913 record of 134°F (56.6°C)

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Jeff Thiel and James Kempf We are not yet reducing global greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert catastrophic levels of global warming. There weren’t many listed Yieldcos until after 2013. That’s a grim and undisputable fact. It’s also an opportunity for savvy investors.

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