Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Decision-makers from global and European corporations, renewable energy project developers, banks, law firms, advisory firms, as well as regulators, government representatives and think tanks gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities of actively procuring and sourcing renewable energy.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

global warming pathway. That should include revising the Treasury's so-called 'green book' guide to state spending to embed net zero into all decisions taken by the department. It adds that such a goal should be backed by annual investments of at least £30bn in green infrastructure over and above current spending plans.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?” Science is not about individuals, it’s about process,” Oreskes testified.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I’m reaching out to invite you to our show tomorrow to discuss how the media’s obsession with global warming manipulates the truth about wildfires,” a booking producer for the morning show Fox & Friends First wrote to Brown on September 5, 2023, proposing a five-minute video interview at 5:20 a.m. the next day.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. “My strong impression is that there is growing agreement in the international and environmental community that research on this topic makes sense.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Conway, authors of the classic 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming , have released a new book placing that doubt machine into a longer arc of U.S. kilowatt output,” according to the book. business and political history.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Peterson is now planting doubt via his podcast and social media posts about the severity and urgency of global warming in the minds of younger generations. Traditionally, people who are “doubtful” or “dismissive” of climate change have tended to skew older. That interview has since been viewed more than 1.1 million times.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

They will be joined by David Frost, a Conservative peer and a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group. In 2021, Prins argued that “net zero agenda hands geopolitical control to China,” because green policies “attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

The committee was chaired by Greenstone, an economist, and included two other economists, an ecologist, two molecular engineers, a historian, a geologist, a law professor, and a computer scientist. His calm, matter-of-fact manner and style of writing—his book makes for a compelling read—are persuasive.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. But it also reflects science denial more broadly, including what the world has been seeing with COVID-19.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Robert Jenrick’s pledge to repeal the UK’s landmark climate change law has won him the backing of some of the country’s most notorious climate science deniers. The book argues that the “dogma of ‘global warming’ was conceived as a means of socialist reversal of the global economic order”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. It’s hard to say, but this year we did get some high-quality doom.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The cabinet still contains four ministers (one of them promoted) who back in 2012 co-wrote a controversial book called Britannia Unchained, which takes a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology”. One said: “Clear evidence that the ice caps aren’t melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s more about politics and policy that drives organizations and individuals to “attack the science and confuse the public,” as Michael Mann wrote in his 2016 book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy,” co-written with cartoonist Tom Toles.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2022

In my new book, “ Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis ,” I lay out connections between these industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy. for blocking efforts to tackle climate injustice linked to global warming. Trump withdrew the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every conceivable legal strategy in her bid to halt ExxonMobil’s fast-growing oil drilling operations off the coast of Guyana. The motivation behind all of these cases is that if people come to Guyana, then they have to obey national law.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975. A Plastic Ocean.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2020, Lomborg published a book entitled “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”, following on from his 1998 text, “The Skeptical Environmentalist”. Problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, they’re solved by more humans,” he said.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975. A Plastic Ocean.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it. Trump signed it into law.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Since then, Bali has announced a law banning single-use plastic, thanks in part to Melati’s efforts. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. IN THEIR BOOK Merchants of Doubt , historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Gamble is unfazed by these tactics.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2025

ARC describes itself as an “international movement”that rejects “ the inevitability of decline ” and brings together an “alliance covering business, technology, culture, law, academic, the arts, and more” to “re-lay the foundations of our civilisation.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Conservative and Reform UK leaders will be speaking alongside individuals who have called climate change a hoax, have said that global warming is probably doing good, and have called climate activists eco fascists. The speakers at ARCs conference will also include Michael Shellenberger , a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The party states that the level of human contribution to global warming is not scientifically proven, and opposes state support for renewable energy and electrification of heat and transport, while advocating for Germanys gas and coal power sectors. Within U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They said Atlas has a commitment to individual rights, free enterprise, and the rule of law. Its website currently states , for example, that global warming is far lower than predicted and in no way justifies climate protection policies. The foundation is considered one of the most influential conservative U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

But in April, Wheeler left government and joined the law firm Holland & Hart, which touted the benefits Wheeler could bring for its “energy and natural resources clients.” In 2021, Bernhardt returned to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the same law firm where he’d worked for oil industry clients before joining the Trump administration.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jordan Peterson delivered an urgent message for the rapt crowd on a warm spring evening at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this year. Thousands of people had bought tickets starting at $95 to hear the Canadian psychologist and star talent of conservative media outlet The Daily Wire promote his latest book, We Who Wrestle With God.

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