DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. The Tories have also received £620,000 since 2001 from Lord Jon Moynihan, another GWPF donor.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

N20 is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential nearly 300 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) – and it typically stays in the atmosphere for more than 100 years before disintegrating. The coffee giant said the N2O used in its whipped cream accounted for half its global scope 1 emissions that year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). You can read more about the Global Warming Policy Foundation in its profile in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database. He was a Brexit minister from 2017 to 2018. Read profile.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

In addition, Tugendhat received £3,000 in December from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer and donor who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. We could be imitating the Norwegians and actually making money from carbon capture.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. Birgit Liodden, founder of The Ocean Opportunity Lab, said: “Toraphene has the potential to create a critical turning point in tackling the global plastic pollution crisis.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The company announced this morning that it has joined the UN's Race to Zero campaign and is to set a new science based emissions target that will be in line with the ambition to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5C. trajectory.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 11, 2024

A recent study of more than 12,000 climate-related YouTube videos posted since 2018 found that old-fashioned climate denial — think “global warming is fake” — has been replaced by another breed of dissent. EVs aren’t the sole solution to global warming, but they are a necessary one in need of balanced news coverage.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

This kind of “new denial” made up 70 percent of climate-denying content on YouTube in 2023, according to the report, compared to 35 percent in 2018. It largely centers around deceptive messages that “climate solutions won’t work,” that the science backing those solutions is unreliable, or that global warming isn’t actually harmful.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Four months later, during the COP27 climate summit, Frost joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group. The IPCC has said the role of human-caused emissions on climate change is “unequivocal”, and that human action can limit global warming.

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Sunrun

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

3 To understand just how big global warming plays a part in our lives… there were about 5 outages per year in the 1950s. Utilities Shut Off Power Grids in 2018 And now, a disturbing trend is emerging in 2018. We lead all developed nations in power outages and blackouts.4

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In 2018, it received $77,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation, which was founded by the CEO of the US-based Koch Industries fossil fuel dynasty. Kruger worked as a senior adviser to the Legatum Institute from 2017 to 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

The research used machine learning to look for trends in the portfolios of companies between 2000-2018. While many gas additions are touted as a bridge fuel toward more renewables, Alova said the size of the global gas fleet far exceeds what is needed to balance renewable-based grids. Data was provided by S&P.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Some 29 per cent of firms have said they will align with the Paris Agreement targets by 2030, up from 24 per cent in mid-2018, the TPI highlighted. pledges having doubled since 2018. Today's TPI data shows it can be done - with 14 companies now aligned with a path to keep global warming below 2C.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

In a bombshell 2018 report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear played a role in all scenarios that kept global warming below 1.5 Department of Commerce estimates that the absence of a nuclear reactor industry will cost up to $740 billion over the next decade. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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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. Lewer received a £500 ticket to the Conservative Party’s Black and White Ball from Hintze in October 2019.

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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. The latter emits up to three times more global warming pollution than producing the same quantity of crude oil.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since the beginning of 2018, Bosch has won electromobility-related orders worth roughly €13 billion, including production projects for electric powertrains for passenger cars and light trucks. If we don’t offer them, we won’t help stop global warming.”. We will only manage that with affordable solutions. Source: Bosch.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts. Porter declined to comment.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In phase one running from 2011 to 2018, some 32km of tunnels varying in depth from 20m to 60m were constructed across north London between Willesden in the west and Hackney in the east and from Kensal Green south to Wimbledon.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

describing a method used by the company Carbon Engineering, gives a range at $94-235 per tCO 2 (Keith 2018). C goal is greatly affected by how late fossil emissions peak and how steep they decline (IPCC 2018). Four scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Global warming of 1.5 One estimate by Keith et al.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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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. This is a significant decrease from 2018, when the panel predicted a 55 percent chance of staying below that threshold. “We

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. John Bello (2018). Willemijn Brouwer (2018). Joseph Gale (2018).

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 4, 2022

“We quickly realized that due to the presence of clouds and the temporal resolution of the data, it was very hard to get good imagery for the project area and we decided to look for alternative solutions,” said Dr. Sunarto, Permian Global’s Wildlife and Landscape Ecologist. Then in 2018, Permian Global turned to Planet’s data for a solution.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Energy Taskforce was established in 2018 to make proposals to Government and industry to bring together the auto and energy sectors to ensure that the GB energy system is able to accelerate the mass take-up of electric vehicles while also delivering benefits to the electricity system.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. These estimates have received significant attention (Jones 2018), reinforcing the common belief that rapidly growing demand for data equals rapidly growing data center energy use.

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