DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Tanker at the dock at Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, on April 12, 2022.

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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. degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. degrees Celsius (2.7

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 However, rather than strengthen the commitment to the government’s legally binding climate targets, the policies are expected to entrench the role of fossil fuels in the UK’s energy system.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

The same specialists found that the period of extreme temperatures endured by several South Asian regions was at least 30 times more likely the result of global warming. Steinberger wrote in Climática , “This is a crucial point to understand: fossil fuel companies are not energy companies. ExxonMobil.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. The history of fossil fuels is a litany of criminal accusations, from corruption and bribery to human rights violations and even complicity in war crimes.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

The report examines the sources of global emissions, explains developments in emissions reduction and mitigation efforts and assesses the impact of national climate pledges. One of the report’s key findings is that limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. Achieving net zero. C is beyond reach.

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BloombergNEF

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Getting on track to limit global warming to 1.5C hinges on investment in low-carbon energy supply averaging four times the capital directed towards fossil fuels this decade. to-1 ratio of bank-facilitated financing at the last count in 2022. That’s significantly higher than the 0.73-to-1

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

AtmanirbharBharat pic.twitter.com/IzoRpIV6ns — Gautam Adani (@gautam_adani) April 21, 2022. The UK is also a leading member of the Powering Past Coal Alliance , a coalition of governments and businesses supporting a transition away from the fuel. Will also work with UK companies to co-create defence & aerospace technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion in 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion in fossil fuels from Qatar, £3.4

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 11, 2024

This article by Common Dreams is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The world’s 60 biggest banks funded fossil fuels to the tune of $6.9 banks provided 30 percent of total fossil fuel finance, the largest share of any country. billion, $396.3 billion, and $333.2

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Equinors statement that it was capturing about 1 million tonnes of CO2 each year at Sleipner alone appears to have first been published on the companys carbon capture and storage (CCS) webpage in 2022, according to archived internet data. They report the amount of CO2 they capture each year and it does not increase. *

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural gas each year than France, and produce emissions on a par with Denmark, a DeSmog analysis has found. “You want me to admit that we have a lot of CO2 emissions because of blue [hydrogen].

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 30, 2022

The post Top 11 Reasons to Purchase a Hybrid Car in 2022 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada. Therefore, the decision needs to be well-thought-out to avoid being disappointed later.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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altenergymag

MAY 25, 2023

With climate change and global warming becoming more pressing concerns, the need for renewable energy sources has never been greater. billion in 2022 and is predicted to exceed US$ 1,998.03 CAGR from 2022 to 2030. billion in 2022 and is predicted to exceed US$ 1,998.03 CAGR from 2022 to 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. million in funding from fossil fuel companies since 2022.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

“Any delay in reversing the upward trend of emissions, phasing out the unabated use of fossil fuels and developing sustainable, additional and permanent negative-emissions options will put this target out of reach.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

Tom Tugendhat, who is running to be Conservative Party leader, recently called the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target “not realistic” and has received donations from Tory peers with fossil fuel interests and a history of funding climate science denial. Tugendhat, Lord Spencer, and Lord Hintze were all approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels. He has suggested that coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, is environmentally sustainable because “coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Tomazoni’s call for greater investment in agribusiness is part of a broader strategy by agricultural giants to present themselves as part of the solution to global warming in multilateral forums, such as the G20, where global leaders meet this week November 18-19 in Rio de Janeiro. JBS was contacted for comment.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? The first report on global warming that was handed to a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. Anti-Net Zero’ MP Hires Aides Linked to Climate Denial Group.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2022

With every fraction of a degree of global warming, climate change impacts will intensify. In the latest installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, 278 scientists from 65 countries find that the world should peak GHG. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As policymakers and leaders around the world prepare for pivotal climate discussions at COP28, the sector must seize the momentum to create more renewable energy, enabling other sectors to decarbonise, and shifting demand away from fossil fuels. Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The IEA has opposed state-led climate policies and has advocated for more fossil fuel extraction.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. FairFuelUK was funded by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) until October 2022. The party is polling around ten percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Reform wants to scrap the UK’s 2050 net zero target, while both Farage and Tice are critics of climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. The party’s manifesto claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2022

While it’s anyone’s guess what will happen over the next 12 months, here’s what DeSmog’s UK team will be keeping an eye on as we head into 2022. While the full list of members of the group remains unknown, we expect to hear a lot more from them in 2022 as the government proposes new policies to tackle climate change. General Election.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

Truss, who is the Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, resigned as prime minister in October 2022 after just 49 days in office. Truss writes that “we should cancel” the United Nations annual COP climate summit, and falsely claims that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than those powered by fossil fuels. “In

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. on Jan 19, 2022. Their demand is somewhat understandable. Since 1990, when the U.N.’s

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