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Voting rights advocate Jerome Foster is raising youth climate awareness

GreenBiz

In 2017, Foster created his second entrepreneurial venture in digital media, The Climate Reporter, a collection of international youth writing about climate change, global warming and environmental justice,

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French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. Emissions from fossil fuels are the primary cause of global warming, according to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Puerto Rico files $1 billion suit against fossil fuel companies

The Verge: Energy

An aerial view of the flooded neighborhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Cataño, Puerto Rico, on Friday, September 22nd, 2017. Fossil fuel companies knew for decades that their products would cause global warming and went about business as usual anyway, several studies and investigations have found.

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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Its chairman, former UKIP donor Andrew Perloff, has blamed rising inflation on climate policies, and defended those who question whether “global warming is happening”.

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Project Drawdown: Could the world halt global warming entirely from the mid-2040s?

Business Green

The latest findings follow in the wake of Project Drawdown's inaugural landmark report from 2017 , which first assessed the same 80-odd solutions. It is the implementation of this system of solutions that is the real solution to climate change.".

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. Activists rally outside of the New York State Attorney General’s office to support the state’s investigation into whether Exxon covered up its knowledge about climate change, February 22, 2017.

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

Envirotec Magazine

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. They also incorporated direct boat-based measurements of methane concentrations around offshore gas platforms in the North Sea collected in summer 2017, documented in a study also led by the authors.

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