Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with global warming potential that is 21 times greater than that of CO2. Around a quarter of manmade global warming is attributed to methane emissions with leaks from gas production and distribution infrastructure seen as a major source of the gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Barclays was the largest European financier of fossil fuels between the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, which set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, and 2022. Over 100 universities across the UK , representing 65 percent of the higher education sector, have pledged to divest from the fossil fuel industry since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

John Constable, energy editor at the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), will speak to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee on Tuesday morning as part of its inquiry, which also looks at the role of the energy regulator Ofgem in the transition to net zero. .

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees or even 2 degrees Celsius.”. degree C rise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

None of these articles provide evidence for the claims, which rely on an unsubstantiated remark from 2014 by the then NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, that Russia had “actively engaged” with environmental groups opposing shale gas “to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas”.

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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’s personal views on climate change are unclear.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million to the party since 2014. He was also recently appointed as a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s principal climate science denial group. Downer was appointed as the High Commissioner to the UK in 2014 by Tony Abbott , who also recently joined the board of the GWPF.

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Energy Innovation

APRIL 27, 2020

The industrial sector was responsible for 33 percent of global anthropogenic emissions in 2014, and industrial emissions are only projected to rise – direct industrial emissions rose 65 percent from 1990 to 2014. Limiting global warming to 2°C requires reaching net zero emissions by 2050-2070, but this is no small task.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

He argued that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was “trivial”. 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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. In 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

World Benchmarking Alliance warns that the global oil and gas industry is on track to smash through the carbon budgets that would prevent global average temperature increases spiralling above 1.5C. The world's chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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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.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? In 2014, NBC News recently reported , less than half of Americans polled believed that climate change was caused by human activity. Modern’ Propaganda.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. That thirsty atmosphere has been behind most of the studies that have found a clear link between global warming and persistent droughts.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. according to a 2014 study. percent and 75 percent.,

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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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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Scott Taylor, the lead author of the 2014 study on Chickadees had this to say: “The rapidity with which these changes are happening is a big deal. Mostly, it means that the Chickadee you see in your home state isn’t the one you are used to. Chickadees are adaptable, but many bird species aren’t.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Vinson said in 2014 that he was “very proud to fund” the GWPF.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is entirely appropriate that big ticket efforts to reduce global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions are at the center of global climate efforts , however, there is also a need for small gestures. percent per year between 1968 and 2014. Such actions can make a big difference if repeated often.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Neil Record , chair of the IEA, is also chair of the GWPF’s campaign wing Net Zero Watch. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

Since the IPCC’s last report on climate change mitigation in 2014, the world has seen the renewable energy industry surge and some of the fossil fuel industry’s favored concepts, like carbon capture and sequestration, flounder. To limit warming to 1.5 C, global coal use must drop 95 percent by 2050, the IPCC said.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

He is the 63 year old founder-director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In 2014, The Independent newspaper described the GWPF as "the UK's most prominent source of climate change denial". But I must admit to a great guffaw of laughter when, last Friday, I received one such email signed by Benny Peiser.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The magazine was edited in the 1960s by the late Nigel Lawson, who would become Thatcher’s chancellor and in later life promote climate science denial through the Global Warming Policy Foundation , based at 55 Tufton Street. Cluff was its chairman until 2004, during which Charles Moore, Dominic Lawson, and Boris Johnson were editors.

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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

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 2014 NASA published a paper which studied the factors that contributed to the fall of great civilizations.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 1, 2020

The heat records keep adding to the mountain of data points that demonstrate that we are suffering from ever worsening global warming. This year (2019) is likely to be the second warmest year in the hottest decade on record. This year will also be remembered for the month of July which is the hottest month ever recorded.

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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. In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Polls indicate that extreme weather is helping Americans to accept the veracity of global warming. A 2014 report from the World Meteorological Organisation explored the mortality risks associated with climate change and concluded that climate change is indeed deadly. This was evident in 2019 and into 2020.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

At the Climate Engineering Conference in 2014 , the first large international conference of its kind, participants noted in a survey that 90 percent of plenary speakers were male, and that not a single panel had more than one woman on it. It has gotten a bit better since then,” she says, “but it’s not great.”.

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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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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

National Geographic says yes by Medilyn Manibo, 21 July 2014 ii Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 iii Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 iv What is the environmental impact of deforestation for paper production? And how can we rebalance our friendship with trees?)

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So even if it was or is colder in some places, that does not detract from the veracity of global warming. percent chance that 2019 will be one of the five warmest years on record (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings are as follows: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014).

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is entirely appropriate that big ticket efforts to reduce global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions are at the center of global climate efforts , however, there is also a need for small gestures. percent per year between 1968 and 2014. Such actions can make a big difference if repeated often.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

By now, most people have heard about polar ice melting due to global warming. “The increase up to 2014 was a surprise, considering the ice loss in the Arctic, and the rapid drop in 2016 added to the long list of questions about Antarctic sea ice. Recent research has shed light on changes in sea ice.

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