Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

Magnason’s book On Time and Water , recently released in the United States, is his attempt to answer that question. During the years he spent gathering research for his book, the world changed dramatically. What if the world will be saved before the book comes out?” Magnason found himself thinking. “It

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there are almost 60 million more undernourished people now as compared to 2014. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A “sustainable development” conference taking place in London gave a platform to two prominent climate science deniers, who used the event to claim that coal-fired power is “clean” and call global warming a “religion”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”, If global warming is your religion, that’s fine.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. The metaphor surged in popularity after the pop-science writer Malcolm Gladwell published the book The Tipping Point in 2000, inspired by an idea from epidemiology for the moment when a virus starts spreading explosively.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A respected global voice on environmental sustainability and climate change, Hawken has consulted with heads of state and industry leaders and has spoken about his work on media platforms worldwide. He has written eight books that have been published in 50 countries, selling more than two million copies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

Certainly our article did not disprove that climate changes have had disastrous impacts on past societies — let alone that global warming has had, and will have, calamitous consequences for us,” Degroot wrote in a post. Some took issue with the interpretations in the book. It’s just not the whole story. degrees C (5.8

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

. ‘Consigning Coal to History’ The UK has used its presidency of COP26 to call for a global phase-out of coal-fired power. The gallery will reportedly “explore the latest climate science and the energy revolution needed to cut global dependence on fossil fuels and achieve the Paris targets to limit global warming to around 1.5

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 28, 2020

The post Greenlots announces acquisition by Shell, one of the world’s leading energy providers appeared first on Green Living, Green Living Books, Green Lighting, Green Guru. For they announced it signed an agreement to become a Continue Reading.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 14, 2021

Rachel Carson wrote the infamous book, Silent Spring, exposing the adverse ecological impacts of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). The eco-conscious movement swept through the agricultural industry decades before rooftop solar panels, and electric vehicles hit the market. The popular insecticide decreased the sustainability of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

I’m the author of The Petroleum Papers , which was named a top 10 book of 2022 by the Washington Post. While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In March 2022, the CPI held an event in Budapest with Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg , to promote his 2020 book “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”. While it claims to support tackling climate change, the CPI has boosted the work of prominent opponents of climate action.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. The myth that most people imagine global warming as a distant concern “could be one explanation of why people tend to underestimate other people’s climate change perceptions,” van Valkengoed said.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

million followers citing a book called “Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate” by S Fred Singer. Not only that, those models – and other more recent ones – have been pretty accurate in estimating how much warming we would get.”. Peterson responded to the criticism on Thursday in tweets to his 2.2

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified. “Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This week, the organization sent copies of its book “ Climate at a Glance ” to 8,000 middle and high school teachers across the country, in order to provide them, it says, with “the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis.” But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials. “In

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 19, 2019

The authors of this book also understand why we fear nuclear power, and the rest of the book is dedicated to heavily and reliably sourced information on why we shouldn’t fear nuclear power. I give this book 5/5 stars, and I’d love for you to read it and tell me what you think in the comments below. You get the idea.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

In her new book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic , author, professor, and researcher Emily Monosson unravels the expansive and unsettling history of fungal invasions across the globe and how they have shaped our lives in both visible and invisible ways. And global warming could help other fungal pathogens spread, too.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked by now. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers. Credit: TheKurgan , CC BY–SA 3.0.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

But Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) and Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) have booked import rights with the import terminal, and both EnBW and SEFE have signed long-term contracts to buy their LNG from Venture Global. “A Hanseatic Energy Hub would not comment on the specific supply chains that would feed the Stade LNG Terminal.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Sustainable forest management plays an important role in mitigating climate change, as it ensures material long-term CO2 sequestration and improves adaptation to global warming," he said. UPM has developed a range of indicators and methods to monitor a net positive impact on biodiversity, he added.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2025

In their upcoming book, Discarded: How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy , paleontologist Sarah Gabbott and geologist Jan Zalasiewicz explore these questions. Q: Why did you decide to write the book? This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’. Bates told DeSmog that he was unable to publish the piece elsewhere through a peer-reviewed process as it was “rejected unilaterally”.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

That was my first question in early March, when a new book about geoengineering, Hacking Planet Earth , authored by journalist Thomas Kostigen , landed on my desk. In its purest sense, geoengineering refers to the deliberate manipulation of the environment to help thwart the effects of global warming. Intriguing?

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Climate-KIC

APRIL 3, 2018

A new book, “Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World” by Matthew Prescott, offers 80 plant-based recipes in the hopes of motivating people to eat healthier, while reducing their environmental impact. The post New cookbook encourages us to put more plants on our plates appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. Throughout the 80s, Houghton was influential in encouraging parliament to engage with the issue of global warming.

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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). In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

” Aline Nippert’s new book Hydrogen Mania: An Investigation into the Totem of Green Growth is published in French by Le passager clandestin. Methane exerts a greater warming effect in the short term, before it gradually breaks down. “I don’t know where the gas will come from,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Over the last 60 years, the ocean, forests and other natural carbon sinks have absorbed over half of all man-made emissions, slowing down global warming. In part, because industrial fishing – scientists and campaigners say – is weakening the ocean’s ability to act as a carbon sink.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. The post 7 People in Virginia Play an Outsized Role in Progress on Global Climate Goals appeared first on DeSmog. Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org,

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2021

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming is a must-read book… The post Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911. Read more: Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

When women do engage on geoengineering issues, they do so largely through a governance and ethics lens, says Tina Sikka, a critical race and gender theorist at Newcastle University who published a book on solar geoengineering last year. But in terms of actually working on the science, “there are almost no women.”.

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